Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To cut into.
  • In medicine, to resolve or disperse, as a coagulated humor.
  • To fall upon, as a ray of light upon a surface; impinge; have incidence.
  • To have effect upon.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To cut; to separate and remove; to resolve or break up, as by medicines.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To cut; to separate and remove.
  • verb obsolete To resolve or break up, as by medicines.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Latin incidere; prefix in- in + caedere to cut. See concise, and compare incise.

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