secesst (seses)

[= Sp. seceso, IMG:content-0473.png:[blocks in formation] No desire, or fear, or doubt, that troubles the air; nor any difficulty, past, present, or to come, that the imagi nation may not pa over without offence, in that sweet sece ion [sleep]. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, iv. 15. But we must not take an abatement for an emptine , a sece ion for a destitution. Rev. T. Adams , Works, II. 55. 2. Specifically, the act of seceding or with drawing from a religious or political organization or a ociation; formal withdrawal. After the infallibility of the pope had been proclaimed as a dogma by the Vatican council in 1871, several communities as well as individuals declared their sece ion from the Roman Church they are called Old Catholics, a bishop who has ledged by most of the states. Encyc. Brit ., X. 469. The doctrine of sece ion - the right of a State, or a combination of States, to withdraw from the Union-was born of that war [1812]. They [New England States] had a convention [1814], famous under the name of Hartford, to which the design of sece ion was imputed. The existence of that convention raised the question of sece ion, and presented the first instance of the greatest danger in the working of the double form of our government-that of a collision between a part of the States and the federal government. T. H. Benton, Thirty Years, I. 4. (a) In Scottish eccles. hist., the separation from the Established Church of Scotland which originated in 1733; hence, the whole body of the members of the Sece ion Church (which see, below). (b) In U. S. hist., the attempted withdrawal, in 1860-61, of eleven States from the Union. See Confederate States, under confederate. - Ordinances of sece ion, in U. S. hist., ordinances pa ed by conventions of eleven Southern States, in 1860-61, declaring their withdrawal from the Union. - Sece ion Church, a religious denomination in Scotland which took its rise in the sece ion of four ministers (Ebenezer Erskine, William Wilson, Alexander Moncrieff, and James Fisher) from the Church of Scotland in 1733. A "breach" in 1747 resulted in the formation of the Burgher and Anti burgher Synods (see Anti burgher ); but these were reunited in 1820 under the name of the United Sece ion Church, which in turn united with Presbyterian the Relief Church. Synod in War way to of form sece ion, th isting U. S. hist., the civil war which resulted from the attempted withdrawal, in 1860-61, of eleven Southern States from the United States of America. It lasted a little over four years, and terminated in the defeat of the seceding States, with the attendant abolition of negro slavery in the United States. The seceding States were subsequently reconstructed as States of the Union. Also called the war of the rebellion, the rebellion, and the civil war.