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exscind, v.|ɛkˈsɪnd|
Also 7, 9 erron. excind.
[f. L. exscind-ĕre, f. ex- out + scindĕre to cut.]
trans. To cut out, excise. lit. and fig. In early use: † To cut off, destroy (a nation, etc.).
1662Petty Taxes 21 If an aliquot part of every landlord's rent were excinded or retrenched. 1785D. Low Chiropodologia 133 He exscinded the remainder with a pair of scissors. 1831Fraser's Mag. IV. 184 From whose proofs the said phrases were fraudulently exscinded. 1860I. Taylor Spir. Hebrew Poetry (1873) 288 The Christian man will not attempt to exscind the irascible emotions, but he will strive to master them.
Hence exˈscinded ppl. a. exˈscinding vbl. n. and ppl. a.
a1677Barrow Serm. (1686) III. 405 The exscinding..of the Amorites. a1711Ken Hymns Evang. Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 63 God with his exscinding Sword in Hand. 1877Shields Final Philos. 488 We are not now inquiring into the legitimacy..of any of the exscinded sciences. 1884Syd. Soc. Lex., Exscinded, term applied to a part from the extremity of which an angular notch has been cut out. |