To cutte out: to cut downe: to destroy. Arborem excidere. Cic. To cut downe a tree. Columnas excidunt rupibus. Virg. They cutte out. Excidere lapides ex terra. Cicero. To digge stones out of a quarrie. Lucum excidere. Cic. Syluas excidere Lucr. Excidere malum. Cic. To roote out a mischiefe. Excidere manibus suis pattiam. Plaut. With his own hands to destroy his countrey. Vrbes excidere. Cic. To rase and destroy. Excidere & euertere vrbem. Cic. To rase and cast downe a citie. Ex animo excidere tempus aliquod. Cicero. To roote out of memorie: to make to be forgotten. Excidere numero ciuium aliquem. Plin. iun. To banishe, or erile one.