Ademption

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: a=demp=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

Ademption, n. [L. ademptio, fr. adimere, ademptum, to take away; ad + emere to buy, orig. to take.].

 The revocation or taking away of a grant, donation, legacy, or the like.  Bouvier.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

Ademption

Taking

N taking, reception, deglutition, appropriation, prehension, prensation, capture, caption, apprehension, deprehension, abreption, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation, subtraction, withdrawal, abstraction, ademption, adrolepsy, dispossession, deprivation, deprivement, bereavement, divestment, disherison, distraint, distress, sequestration, confiscation, eviction, rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism, theft, resumption, reprise, reprisal, recovery, clutch, swoop, wrench, grip, haul, take, catch, scramble, taker, captor, subduction, taking, privative, prehensile, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, lupine, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, parasitic, bereft, at one fell swoop, give an inch and take an ell.