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Definition of Abscind
1. v. t. To cut off.
Definition of Abscind
1. Verb. (transitive) To cut off. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Abscind
1. to cut off [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abscind
Literary usage of Abscind
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions by Cambridge Philological Society (1883)
"It also appears in the weakened form SKID, whence schism, schist, zest, squill,
abscind, rescind, abscissa, shingle in the old sense of ' wooden tile/ ..."
2. Thesaurus of English words and phrases by Peter Mark Roget (1883)
"... away, - out ; abscind, excise ; pare, thin, prune, decimate ; abrade, scrape,
file ; geld, castrate ; eliminate. diminish &c. 36 ; curtail &c. ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"... abrogate, abrupt, abscess, abscind, abscond, absent, absolute, absolve, absorb,
abstemious, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"... but others entire and trustworthy, he has skill and science to abscind so as
to restore ; that, if down must go the whole edifice, he is prepared to ..."
5. A Dictionary of the English Languageby Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"Part of the diameter of a conick section, intercepted between the vertex and a
semi-ordinate. To abscind, (ab-sind') ». a. To cut off. ..."
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