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Discerp

//dɪˈsɜː(ɹ)p// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To tear into pieces; to rend.

    "They would therefore ſay, that tho' these two, the father and the son, are different divine personalities, yet they cannot be called two Gods, or two godheads; for this would be discerping the deity or godhead , which is equally absurd"

  2. 2
    cut off from a whole wordnet
  3. 3
    To separate; to disunite.

    "[…] to reascend the place from whence they came, and rejoin that Substance from whence they were discerped […]"

  4. 4
    divide into pieces wordnet

Etymology

From Latin discerpō, from dis- + carpō (“to pluck”).

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