Lexic.us

Definition of Rasure

1. n. The act of rasing, scraping, or erasing; erasure; obliteration.

Definition of Rasure

1. Noun. (context: now rare legal) Scraping the surface of a parchment etc. in order to erase something from the document; erasure, more generally. ¹

2. Noun. (rare) Obliteration, destruction. ¹

3. Noun. (obsolete) Shaving the head, or an instance of this; a tonsure. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rasure

1. erasure [n -S] - See also: erasure

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rasure

Literary usage of Rasure

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of by Roger North (1826)
"There he found the rasure most evident, and not done so carefully, but by the bottoms and tops of the long letters, and the distances that determined the ..."

2. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"J. said, all the special non esl factums, in case of rasure and 266. escrow, are impertinent; for thereby the deft, brings the proof he turns the proof of ..."

3. Institutes of Common and Statute Law by John Barbee Minor (1877)
"In respect to the rasure or alteration of contracts executory, ... rasure, &c , of a Contract Executory, made by a party, or one interested. ..."

4. Wharton's Law-lexicon: Forming an Epitome of the Law of England; and by John Jane Smith Wharton (1883)
"rasure, or Erasure, the act of scraping or shaving. rasure of a deed, so as to alter it in a material part, without consent of the party bound by it, etc., ..."

5. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1838)
"Besides tlic rasure of peregrination , variety of objects will make amends; and so many nobles, Tully, Aristides. Themistocles, Theseus, Codrus, &c. as have ..."

6. Sheppard's Touchstone of Common Assurances: Or, a Plain and Familiar by William Sheppard, Edward Hilliard, Richard Preston (1820)
"Pert'sect 133. its creation, shall be afterwards altered by rasure, *»«'•»•<»«•«- Dwr'*7*6|9' ^ * ^^ t^at IS W6^ an^ ..."

7. Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough; with His Original Correspondence: With by William Coxe (1820)
"... and rasure of the lines. -~ Indisposition and recovery of Marlborough. — Manifestation of public sentiment in his favour. — New arrangements relative to ..."

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