v. Also 7 exect. [f. L. exsect- ppl. stem of exsecāre, f. ex- out + secāre to cut.] trans. To cut out. Also fig.
1641. J. Johnson, Acad. Love, 96. These, said Cupid, are not called Bookes, but Tomes, or Sections, for that our courtly Dames study onely to exect or cut off their thread-bare curtesans.
1672. G. Harvey, Morb. Angl., vii. (ed. 2), 18. Were it not for the effusion of blood … which would necessarily follow an exection, the Liver might … be exected.
1758. J. S., Le Dran’s Observ. Surg. (1771), 51. Part of which [Tumour], of the Bigness of a Crown, had been exsected.
1800. E. Darwin, Phytologia, xv. § 5. 430. Exsect the exuberant growth.
1823. Blackw. Mag., XIII. 691. The ham, exsected from Westphalian hog.
Hence Exsected ppl. a.
1667. Boyle, in Phil. Trans., II. 595. I caused the … exsected piece to be put into a … Receiver.
1880. Blackie, in Contemp. Rev., 289. The exsected books of the Iliad.
