What's the difference between cession and cessionary?

Cession


Definition:

  • (n.) A yielding to physical force.
  • (n.) Concession; compliance.
  • (n.) A yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person; the act of ceding.
  • (n.) The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation.
  • (n.) The voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The insufficient cession of O2 seems to stimulate the enzyme activity, especially for the patients who simultaneously present low values of blood pseudo-cholinesterase.
  • (2) The LH-RH immunoreactive neuronal increase, in male may be related to an atropine blockade of LH-RH portal cession, perhaps via infundibular dopaminergic neurons.
  • (3) It was reported that oxygen consumption was parallel to the activity of dentin formation, and anaerobic pathway became predominant after the cession of calcification.

Cessionary


Definition:

  • (a.) Having surrendered the effects; as, a cessionary bankrupt.

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