abscindedadj.
/əbˈsɪndᵻd/, /abˈsɪndᵻd/, U.S. /æbˈsɪndᵻd/ Now rare.
Cut off, detached, separated.
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1674 W. Charleton Nat. Hist. Passions 8 Whether..it be inferrible, or not, that in the abscinded head of the beast there remained anything of Anger and Revenge.
a1734 R. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North (1744) 158 The worst Grievance [of the shrievalty] was the Executioner coming to him for Orders, touching the abscinded Members, and to know where to dispose of them.
1797 G. Staunton Authentic Acct. Embassy to China I. ix. 430 By the art of dwarfing, an abscinded branch committed to the earth, continues still to fructify.
1851 Times 12 July 5/4 They..cut off the heads withal of any neighbours they can catch, and these abscinded members they have an ugly fashion of smoking and curing.
1913 G. F. Moore Hist. Relig. I. xvii. 433 From the froth of the abscinded member cast into the sea, [springs] the ‘foam-born’ goddess, Aphrodite.
2002 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 89 1591 Occasionally the abscinded stamens remained wedged among the petals, but were easily dislodged.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.1674- to beat to it
- to beat to mash
- to beat to nothing
- to beat to ribands
- to beat to snuff
- to beat to sticks
- to beat together
- to beat up
- to beat up for
- to beat up for recruits
- to beat up quarters
- to beat up recruits
- to beat up the quarters of
- to beat up the town for recruits
- to beat upon a walk
- to beat upon the hand
- to beat upon the hoof
- to beat with the spit
- to beat — bells out of
- to beat-burn
- to beatburn
- to become a woman
- to become all the rage
- to become expression
- to become good for