different between accession vs abolishment

English

Etymology

From Latin accessio, from acc?d? (English accede). Cognate to French accession. First attested in 1646.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æk.?s?.??n/, /??s?.??n/
• (US)

Noun

accession (countable and uncountable, plural accessions)

1. A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined

2. Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
   • 1783, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, Volume 1, Chapter 1, p. 5,^[1]

     The only accession which the Roman empire received, during the first century of the Christian Aera, was the province of Britain.

   • 1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, p. xli,^[2]

     […] armed vessels being provided, their crews were soon recruited by accessions from the needy or adventurous, the discontented or the bold.

3. (law) A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species).
4. (law) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
5. The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
6. (medicine) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
7. Agreement.
8. Access; admittance.
9. A group of plants of the same species collected at a single location, often held in genebanks.

Translations

Verb

accession (third-person singular simple present accessions, present participle accessioning, simple past and past participle accessioned)

1. (transitive) To make a record of (additions to a collection).

Antonyms

• deaccession

Further reading

• accession at OneLook Dictionary Search
• accession in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Ascencios

French

Noun

accession f (plural accessions)

1. accession (to throne)
2. (law) accession

Further reading

• “accession” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle French abolissement, from aboliss-, stem of some conjugated forms abolir.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??b?l.??.m?nt/

Noun

abolishment (countable and uncountable, plural abolishments)

1. The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. [First attested from the mid 16^th century.]

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