Excidium, dij. n. g. Liu.The sacking, rasing, or destroying of a citie.Fumantia excidia euersæ vrbis.Virg.Miserabile excidium.Stat. Aduentat illi excidium. Tac. Destruction is at hand.Dare aliquem excidio.Virg.To destroy.Moliri excidium. Sil. Petere vrbem excidijs. Virg.
Excido, excídis, excídi, excîsum, pen. prod. excídere. Ab Ex & Cædo, cædis, compositum. 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.