Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cut out; excise.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cut off; cut out.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cut off; to separate or expel from union; to extirpate.
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- verb medicine, surgery To
cut out .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin exscindere : ex-, ex- + scindere, to cut; see skei- in Indo-European roots.]
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From Latin exscindo.
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Examples
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You mean, then, to _exscind the South, or to exscind yourself and others_, or to _compel the South to withdraw_.
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_you mean to exscind the South_; for it is absurd to imagine that you suppose the South will submit to such action.
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Christian presence, and Christian participation, and Christian sentiment boldly into the midst of the people’s amusements, with a view less to exscind than to regulate.
Amusement: A Force in Christian Training Marvin Richardson Vincent 1878
whichbe commented on the word exscind
Cut out; uproot. (Luciferous Logolepsy)
May 17, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word exscind
The string *xsc appears to be uncommon in English.
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January 8, 2012