Bible Dictionaries
Cession

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) Concession; compliance.

(2):

(n.) A yielding to physical force.

(3):

(n.) A yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person; the act of ceding.

(4):

(n.) The voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment.

(5):

(n.) The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Cession'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/cession.html. 1828.