Excindo, éxcindis, éxcidi, pen. cor. excîsum. pen. pro. excíndere, quod alij Exscindo malunt scribere: alij putant sine s scribendum quod x pro duplici ss accipiatur. Cice. To rase: to ouerthrowe: to destroy.Domos excindere.Virg.Genus aliquod excindere.Val. Flac.To roote out a stocke or kinred.Gentem aliquam ferro excindere.Virg.Excindere linguam.Cicer.To cut out ones tongue.Nomen alicuius excindere. Sil, To roote out or abolish ones name.Rupes excin dere.Stat.To cutte downe rockes.Telis excindere vrbem.Virg.With weapon to destroy.
Exscindo, Vide EXCINDO.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ex-scindo (exc-), ĭdi, issum, 3, v. a. (lit., to tear out; hence, in gen.), to extirpate, destroy (syn.: delere, evertere, vastare). I.Lit. (class.): templum sanctitatis, etc.... inflammari, exscindi, funestari, Cic. Mil. 33, 90; cf. id. Planc. 41, 97; id. Phil. 4, 5, 13; id. Rep. 6, 11; Sall. H. 4, 61, 17; Liv. 28, 44, 2; 44, 27, 5: Pergama Argolicis telis, Verg. A. 2, 177: domos, id. ib. 12, 643: ferro sceleratam gentem, id. ib. 9, 137: hostem, Tac. A. 2, 25.—II.Trop., to tear away: fortine animam hanc exscindere dextra indignum est visum? Sil. 4, 674. (In Plin. Pan. 34, 2, read excidisti).