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exscind

PRONUNCIATION:

MEANING:

verb tr.: To cut out or off.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin exscindere, from ex- (out) + scindere (to cut). Ultimately from the Indo-European root skei- (to cut or split), which also gave us excise, schism, ski, shin, scienter , and adscititious . Earliest documented use: 1662.

USAGE:

"The knife skipped off the stone and almost exscinded Shih Te's index finger."

Alexander Goldstein; The Foundling; Trafford; 2009.

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