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discerp, v. Now rare.|dɪˈsɜːp|
Pa. tense and pple. discerped, discerpt.
[ad. L. discerp-ĕre to tear in pieces, f. dis- 1 + carpĕre to pick, pluck, etc. Cf. excerp. The pa. pple. discerpt rests, partly at least, on the L. pa. pple. discerpt-us.]
1. trans. To pluck or tear asunder, pull to pieces; fig. to divide forcibly into parts or fragments, to dismember.
1482Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 51 The cruelle..wodnes of wykyd spirytys the whiche al to bete me discerpte me..and al to brend me. 1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 28 Being once so discerped [they] can neuer after neither in applying their owne parts togither, neither yet in fastning..them to any body..reuiue and quicken againe. 1668H. More Div. Dial. iv. xxxiii. (1713) 385 This Horn..is the Roman Empire discerped into so many Kingdoms. 1682― Annot. Glanvill's Lux O. 182 It is no derogation to his Omnipotence that he cannot discerp a Spirit once created.
2. To pluck or tear off, sever (from a whole).
1655H. More Antid. Ath. (1662) 173, There is no means..to discerp or separate any one ray of this Orbe, and keep it apart by it self. 1778Apthorpe Preval. Chr. 311 His principle was, that the human soul, discerped from the soul of the universe, after death was re-fused into the parent-substance. 1845T. Cooper Purgatory Suicides (1877) 115 The Soul Lived consciously discerpt from her clay shrine. 1869Baring-Gould Origin Belief (1878) I. xii. 247 Infinite space may have parts in it discerped, and the interval subdivided. |