Rescindo, dis, di, pen. con. cissum, cíndere. Cæ. To cut or break in sunder: to take away: to destroy: to abolishe or fordoe: to make voide or repell an acte or lawe: to breake vppe: to breake downe: to launce.Locum aliquem rescindere.Cicer.To cut or breake downe a place.Vias rescindere. Sen. Quod falx reliquerit, vomis rescindat. Col. Rescindere summum osvlceris.Virg.To launce or rutte the vpper part of the sore.Rescisso vulnere. Pli. iuo. When the wounde was new launced or opened.Pectora ferro rescindere.Stat.Terram rescindere. Col. To till vp the grounde.Vitem rescindere. Col. To cut a vine. Quod cst factum legibus rescindere. Tere. To abolishe or fordoe, that was done according to the lawe.Acta alicuius rescindere.Cic.To make voide ones actes or doings.Beneficium suum ipse insequenti iniuria rescidit. Seneca. Consilia rescindere.Cic.Crimina rescindere.Ouid.Damnationem rescindere. Ci. To make voide a condemnation.Iniurias rescindere, & irritas facere.Cic.Iudicia rescindere, siue rem iudicatam. Ci. To rcuoke, break or make voide a indgemene and sentence giuen.Iudicium rescindere, & Ratum habere, contraria, Cic.Iussa Iouis rescindere.Ouid.Annis obductos luctus rescindere.Ouid.To renue sorrowe by long time forgotten.Pactiones rescindere.Cic.To breake or vndoe couenmtes.Voluntatem mortui rescindere. Ci. To break or vndo a dead mans will.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
rē-scindo, scĭdi, scissum, 3, v. a., to cut off, cut loose, cut or break down; to cut or tear open (freq. and class.). I.Lit.: pontem, i. e.
to break down
, Caes. B. G. 1, 7; 4, 19fin.; 6, 29; 7, 35; 7, 58 fin.; Nep. Milt. 3, 4; Liv. 2, 10; Flor. 3, 10, 3: vallum ac loricam falcibus, Caes. B. G. 7, 86 fin.: pluteos, Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. 95, 22: cameras tectorum, Front. Strat. 3, 4, 6: tecta domusque in usum novae classis, Flor. 2, 15, 10: caelum, Verg. G. 1, 280; id. A. 6, 583: tenuem vestem e membris, Tib. 1, 10, 61: vestes, Claud. B. Gild. 136: decreta, Suet. Calig. 3: ense teli latebram penitus,