exscind
动词 v.
发音 ĕk(s)-sĭndʹ
英文释义
动词 v.
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To cut out.
— It should be mentioned that matter which has became^([sic]) untrue by the progress of events since the first edition of this book has been carefully exscinded.
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To destroy utterly, to extirpate.
— Had this Monster no more Horns than Zechary saw in that prophetical Vision, had this Hydra no more heads than Alexander's World had Kingdoms […] my success hitherto might give me hopes, at last to excind the last of them.
词源
Learned borrowing from Latin exscindō (“demolish, destroy”), originally in the sense “to destroy utterly”.
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