rescinding
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The so-called "schismatics" were made such by the exscinding act of the Patriarch himself.
From History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. by Anderson, Rufus
It is well known, that in James the First’s reign, a statute was passed for exscinding profane expressions from plays.
From The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] Introduction and Publisher's Advertising by Clark, William George
A later parallel, it is claimed, is found in the "virtually exscinding act" of the General Assembly of 1861, which was the occasion of the secession of the Southern Presbyterians.
From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey
But it is natural, no doubt, that exscinding acts should look different when examined from the muzzle instead of from the breech.
From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey
