exscind

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĕk(s)-sĭndʹ, ĭk(s)-sĭndʹ, IPA^(key): /ɛk(s)ˈsɪnd/, /ɪk(s)ˈsɪnd/
• Rhymes: -ɪnd

Verb

exscind (third-person singular simple present exscinds, present participle exscinding, simple past and past participle exscinded)

1. (chiefly medicine, surgery) To cut out.
   • 1902 September 1, H. T. Kealing, “A Statement”, in William C. Neill, Colored Americans in the Wars of 1776 and 1812‎^[1]:

     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. (obsolete, Late Modern) To destroy utterly, to extirpate.
   • 1675, John Smith, Christian Religion’s Appeal from the Groundless Prejudices of the Sceptick to the Bar of Common Reason […]‎^[2], page 129:

     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.

   • a. 1711, Thomas Ken, “Edmund: An Epic Poem”, in The Works of the Right Reverend, Learned and Pious Thomas Ken, D. D. […], volume 2, published 1721, page 351:

     O for their Prayers my Anglia’s Doom suspend! / […] / The sinful Land exscind not, but reprove, […]

   • 1792, Memoirs of Hildebrand Freeman, Esq.: or, A Sketch of “The Rights of Man” […], page 41:

     […] how can any government, who pretends to be free […] thus exscind the rights, the privileges, the talents, and public services of their brethren and fellow citizens, merely because they cannot advance the price of three days labour, or should happen, either from original poverty, or subsequent misfortunes, to be in the state of menial servitude?

Translations

to cut out — see also cut out

• Bulgarian: режа (bg) (reža), изрязвам (bg) (izrjazvam)