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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To cut out; excise.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To cut off; cut out.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To cut out.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To cut off; to separate or expel from union; to extirpate.

Etymologies

  1. Latin exscindere : ex-, ex- + scindere, to cut; see skei- in Indo-European roots.

Examples

  • “You mean, then, to _exscind the South, or to exscind yourself and others_, or to _compel the South to withdraw_.”

    Slavery Ordained of God

  • “_you mean to exscind the South_; for it is absurd to imagine that you suppose the South will submit to such action.”

    Slavery Ordained of God

  • “Christian presence, and Christian participation, and Christian sentiment boldly into the midst of the people’s amusements, with a view less to exscind than to regulate.”

    Amusement: A Force in Christian Training

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  • hernesheir The string *xsc appears to be uncommon in English.
    Click on the string to see some words so far indexed by Wordnik. Jan 7, 2012

  • whichbe Cut out; uproot. (Luciferous Logolepsy) May 16, 2008

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