v. Also 7, 9 erron. excind. [f. L. exscind-ĕre, f. ex- out + scindĕre to cut.] trans. To cut out, excise. lit. and fig. In early use: † To cut off, destroy (a nation, etc.).
1662. Petty, Taxes, 21. If an aliquot part of every landlord’s rent were excinded or retrenched.
1785. D. Low, Chiropodologia, 133. He exscinded the remainder with a pair of scissors.
1831. Fraser’s Mag., IV. 184. From whose proofs the said phrases were fraudulently exscinded.
1860. I. Taylor, Spir. Hebrew Poetry (1873), 288. The Christian man will not attempt to exscind the irascible emotions, but he will strive to master them.
Hence Exscinded ppl. a. Exscinding vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
a. 1677. Barrow, Serm. (1686), III. 405. The exscinding … of the Amorites.
a. 1711. Ken, Hymns Evang., Poet. Wks. 1721, I. 63. God with his exscinding Sword in Hand.
1877. Shields, Final Philos., 488. We are not now inquiring into the legitimacy … of any of the exscinded sciences.
1884. Syd. Soc. Lex., Exscinded, term applied to a part from the extremity of which an angular notch has been cut out.
