Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for A-POS'TA-SY
A-POS-I-O-PE'SIS, or A-POS-I-O'PE-SYA-POS'TATE
A-POS'TA-SY, n. [Gr. αποστασις, a defection, of αφιστημι, to depart, απο, and ιστημι.]
- An abandonment of what one has professed; a total desertion, or departure from one's faith or religion.
- The desertion from a party to which one has adhered.
- Among physicians, the throwing off of exfoliated or fractured bone, or the various solution of disease. – Coxe.
- An abscess. – Encyc.
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