To cut: to diuide: to rent: to teare. Cuneis robur fissile scinditur, Virgi. Dke is cleft with wedges. Nec poterit rigidas scindere remus aquas. Ouid. And the oares could not breake the water frosen. Capillos scindere. Oui. To teare his haite. Comam scindere. Ci. Verbera scindentia corpus lacerum. Sil. Renting. Crines scindere. Vir. Dolorem suum scindere. C. To refresh or renew his sorow. Fluuios scindere natatu. Claud. To deuide the water in swimming. Humum scinderevomere. Ouid. To til the ground. Latus scindere flagello. Ou. To rent ones sides with whypping. Mare scindere nauigijs. Ouid. Nebulas scindere. Ouid. Necessitudines scindere. Pli. iun. Penulam scindere. Cic. To teare ones coate with holding him to tatie. Sententiam scindere. Ci. To dinide his opinion. Solum scindere. Virg. To plough the ground. Mare tellurem scindit. Luca. The sea diuideth the earth. Terram scindere vomere Ouid. Verba fletu scinduntur. Oui. Viam scindere. Vir. Vnda scindit se in sinus reductos. Vir. Scinditur in certum studia in cõtraria vulgus. Vir. The wauering people is alway diuided into sundrie affections. Scissus. Patticipium. Liu. Cut: deuided: cleft: rent: to rne. Alumen scissum. Col. Capilli scissi. Tibul. Vestis. Vir. Tunica scisla. Onid. Viscera scissa. Oui.

I. Lit.: quom saxum scisciderit, Enn. ap. Prisc. l. l.: non ergo aquila scisciderat pectus, Att. ib. and ap. Gell. l. l.: satis fortiter vestras sciscidistis colus, Afran. ap. Prisc. l. l.: scindens dolore identidem intonsam comam, Att. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 62: crines, Verg. A. 12, 870; Ov. M. 11, 683: capillos, id. H. 3, 79; Tib. 1, 10, 55; cf., in a Greek construction: scissaeque capillos matres, Ov. M. 8, 526: vela, Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 18: epistulam, Cic. Fam. 5, 20, 9: vestem, to tear open, Liv. 3, 58; Quint. 2, 15, 7; Prop. 2, 15 (3, 7), 18; Ov. M. 9, 166; Hor. C. 1, 17, 27; cf.: vestem tibi de corpore, Prop. 2, 5, 21: pecora scindunt herbarum radices, Col. 2, 18, 2: asini me mordicibus scindant, tear, lacerate, Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 57: sinus, Ov. M. 10, 386: latus flagello, id. Ib. 185: lacerum corpus ictibus innumeris, Sil. 1, 172: vitiato fistula plumbo Scinditur, bursts open, Ov. M. 4, 123; cf.: et faceret scissas languida ruga genas, wrinkled, Prop. 3, 10, 6: vallum, to break through, tear up, Caes. B. G. 3, 5; 5, 51; Liv. 7, 37; Tac. H. 4, 28: limen portae, to break in pieces, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 31: pontem, to break down, id. ib. 5, 26: cuneis lignum, to split, cleave, Verg. G. 1, 144: quercum cuneis, id. A. 7, 510: cuneis fissile robur, id. ib. 6, 182; cf.: ferro aequor (i. e. humum), id. G. 1, 50; cf. solum, id. ib. 2, 399: vomere terram, Ov. A. A. 2, 671: freta ictu (remorum), id. M. 11, 463: puppis aquas, id. Tr. 1, 10, 48: fluvios natatu, Claud. Cons. Hon. 4, 347: tellurem mare scindit, Luc. 3, 61: agmen, Tac. A. 1, 65 et saep.: labra, to open wide, Quint. 11, 3, 81: obsonium, to cut up, carve, Sen. Vit. Beat. 17; cf. nihil (edulium), Mart. 3, 12, 2: aves in frusta, Sen. Brev. Vit. 12.—

b. Prov.: penulam alicui, to tear off one's travelling cloak, i.e. to urge, press, solicit one to stay, Cic. Att. 13, 33, 4.—

B. Transf., to part, separate, divide; of places: dirimit scinditque Sueviam continuum montium jugum, Tac. G. 43: frons Italia in duo se cornua scindit, Mel. 2, 4, 7.— Mid.: omnis Italia scinditur in duo promuntoria, Sall. H. 4, 18 Dietsch.—In gen.: se (lutamenta), Cato, R. R. 128: se (nubes), Verg. A. 1, 587.—Mid.: omnis fumus, vapor, etc.... scinduntur per iter flexum, Lucr. 4, 91: scinditur in geminas partes circumfluus amnis, Ov. M. 15, 739; Luc. 1, 551.—Absol.: sentes quod tetigere, ilico rapiunt: si eas ereptum, ilico scindunt, Plaut. Cas. 3, 6, 2.—

2. To destroy: scindunt proceres Pergamum, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 130.—

II. Trop., to tear in pieces, to distract, agitate, disturb, etc.: aliquem quāvis scindunt cuppedine curae, Lucr. 3, 994: quantae tum scindunt hominem cuppedinis acres Sollicitum curae, id. 5, 46: nolo commemorare, quibus rebus sim spoliatus, ne scindam ipse dolorem meum, tear open, i. e. renew my grief, Cic. Att. 3, 15, 2: non sine piaculo sanctissimas necessitudines scindi, to be sundered, separated, Plin. Pan. 37 fin.: ut (actio) noctis interventu scinderetur, was interrupted, id. Ep. 2, 11, 16: verba fletu, Ov. P. 3, 1, 157: vox scinditur, is broken, cracked, Quint. 11, 3, 20: sic genus amborum scindit se sanguine ab uno, divides, branches off, Verg. A. 8, 142; cf.: scidit deinde se studium atque inertiā factum est, ut artes esse plures viderentur, was separated, divided, Quint. prooem. 13; cf.: naturalis pars philosophiae in duo scinditur corporalia et incorporalia, Sen. Ep. 89, 16: scinditur incertum studia in contraria vulgus, Verg. A. 2, 39; cf. Tac. H. 1, 13: scindebatur in multiplices curas, Amm. 16, 3, 3.—Hence, scissus, a, um, P. a., split, cleft, divided.

A. Lit.: folia pluribus divisuris, Plin. 25, 5, 21, 48: vitis folio, id. 14, 2, 4, 23: scissae (aures) cervis ac velut divisae, id. 11, 37, 50, 136: alumen, Col. 6, 13, 1 (for which: scissile alumen, Cels. 5, 2; 6, 11): vestibus, Vulg. Job, 2, 12.—

B. Trop.: genus vocum, harsh, grating, Cic. de Or. 3, 57, 216.—No comp., sup., or adv.