Discerp
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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 cut off from a whole wordnet
- 3 To separate; to disunite.
"[…] to reascend the place from whence they came, and rejoin that Substance from whence they were discerped […]"
- 4 divide into pieces wordnet
Example
More examples"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"
Etymology
From Latin discerpō, from dis- + carpō (“to pluck”).
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