discerp

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  1. To tear in pieces; rend. This [sedition] divides, yea, and discerps a city. Dr. Griffith, Fear of God and the King, p. 100.
  2. To separate; disjoin. In this consequence of its substantiality, that it was part of God, discerped from him, and would be resolved again into him, they all, we say, agreed. Warburton, Divine Legation, iii. § 4.

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  1. from Latin discerpere, tear in pieces, from dis-, asunder, + carpere, pluck: see carp.
 

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