exscinded

Eusebius had mentioned seven Epistles, but Ussher -- deceived by a mistake on the part of St. Jerome -- exscinded the Epistle to Polycarp, and condemned it as spurious.

The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

One paragraph in the exscinded section of the letter belongs to a day and system that have lapsed almost from the memory of the living.

Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910

When the four exscinded synods, three in western New York and one in Ohio, together with a great following of sympathizing congregations in all parts of the country, came together to reconstruct their shattered polity, they were found to number about four ninths of the late Presbyterian Church.

A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897

Brunswick found itself exscinded by this short and easy process of discipline; the presbytery of New York joined with it in organizing a new synod, and the schism was complete.

A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897

I know not what gave me the suspicion that he had not even found the heart to destroy the exscinded names; perhaps the care with which they had been removed; perhaps, in two instances, the circumstance of their taking words out of the body of the letters with them.

Beauty and the Beast: and Tales of Home 1872

When the four exscinded synods, three in western New York and one in

A History of American Christianity Leonard Woolsey Bacon 1868

New Brunswick found itself exscinded by this short and easy process of discipline; the presbytery of New York joined with it in organizing a new synod, and the schism was complete.

A History of American Christianity Leonard Woolsey Bacon 1868

That portion of the Presbyterian church called New School, considering this act unjust, refused to assent to it, joined the exscinded synods, and formed themselves into the New School General Assembly.

Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. In Two Volumes. Vol. II 1856

I know not what gave me the suspicion that he had not even found the heart to destroy the exscinded names; perhaps the care with which they had been removed; perhaps, in two instances, the circumstance of their taking words out of the body of the letters with them.

Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home Bayard Taylor 1851

Hence it is, that there is scarcely an entire letter in the collection; but the exscinded parts will not often seem wanting to the reader.

Memoirs, Correspondence and Poetical Remains of Jane Taylor 1832