different between begun vs abscission

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b????n/

Verb

begun

1. past participle of begin
   • 1807, Edward Hyde (1st earl of Clarendon.), The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England, begun in the year 1641. 3 vols. [each in 2 pt.]., page 717

     ... when he should take the sield, that city was persuaded to complete the regiment they had begun to form, under the command of a Colonel whom the King had recommended to them ; which they did raise to the number of a thousand men.

2. (obsolete or nonstandard) simple past tense of begin [17th-20th c.]
   • 1790 (see Amazing Grace)

     When we've been there ten thousand years,

     Bright shining as the sun,

     We've no less days to sing God's praise,

     Than when we first begun.

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [be??un]

Noun

begun (nominative plural beguns)

1. begonia

Declension

English

Etymology

From Latin abscissi?, from abscind? (“I cut, I tear”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

abscission (countable and uncountable, plural abscissions)

1. The act or process of cutting off.
   • 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]

     Not to be cured without the abscission of a member.

2. (obsolete) The state of being cut off. [Attested only in the mid 17^th century.]
3. (rhetoric) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly
4. (botany) The natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole. [First attested in the late 19^th century.]

Usage notes

Not to be confused with abscision, which only is defined as the first sense.

Related terms

• abscise
• abscisic
• abscisic acid
• abscisin, abscissin

Translations

Anagrams

• abscisions

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ap.si.sj??/

Noun

abscission f (plural abscissions)

1. (botany) abscission

Further reading

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