decerption

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈsɜːpʃən/

decerption (plural decerptions)

1. The act of plucking off, cutting off, or extraction
2. Something plucked off or torn off
3. a fragment, a piece.
   • 1662, Joseph Glanvill, Lux Orientalis:

     if our souls are but particles and decerptions of our parents, then I must have been guilty of all the ſins that ever were committed by my Progenitors ever since Adam

• decerp

• “decerption”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.