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Secessio(u)n, n. [e.m.E. secession (1601), OF cecession (1354 in Larousse), L. sēcessiōn- a going-aside, a withdrawal.] a. Representing L. secessio plebis, the retirement of the Roman plebeianis to Mons Sacer in A.U.C. 261, after a quarrel with the senators, which resulted in the creation of the tribunes. b. The withdrawal (of dissenters from the established Church of Scotland). — 1533 Bell. Livy II 231/5.
At that tyme war acceppit be thame may wikkit & sorouffull lawis than evir war acceppit be secessioun of pepill to the sacrate montane c1670–87 Fraser in Sel. Biog. II 340.
The bishops … imagining me to be of some parts, and very active in preaching in the fields, and keeping up the secession as they called it
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