Obs. rare–1. [f. ABSCESSION + -AL 2; cf. processional. Prop. adj. sc. ‘order, decree.’] A permission or command to depart.
1656. J. Trapp, Exp. Matt. xix. 7 (1868), 216/1. It was true that Moses commanded … that he should give her an abscessionale, a bill of divorcement.
