Exscind

//ɛk(s)ˈsɪnd// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To cut out.

    "It should be mentioned that matter which has became^([sic]) untrue by the progress of events since the first edition of this book has been carefully exscinded."

  2. 2
    To destroy utterly, to extirpate. Late, Modern, obsolete

    "Had this Monster no more Horns than Zechary saw in that prophetical Vision, had this Hydra no more heads than Alexander's World had Kingdoms […] my success hitherto might give me hopes, at last to excind the last of them."

Synonyms

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expel

Example

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"It should be mentioned that matter which has became^([sic]) untrue by the progress of events since the first edition of this book has been carefully exscinded."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin exscindō (“demolish, destroy”), originally in the sense “to destroy utterly”.

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