Succision

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Succision \Suc*ci"sion\, n. [L. succisio, fr. succidere,
     succisum, to cut away below, sub under + caedere to cut.]
     The act of cutting down, as of trees; the act of cutting off.
     [R.]
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