Reseco, cas, pe. cor. cui, ctum, câre. Colum. To cut awaye that is supersluous: to cur from a place.Ferro resecare capillos.Ouid.To cut or clippe ost his haire.Linguam resecare. Cic, To out out ones congue.Palpebras resecare. Ci. Vngues resecare. Val. Max. To paire nailes.Ad viuum resecare. Vile AD præpositionem Col. Resecare, per translation. Ci. To cut aud take awaye cleane.Libidinem resecare. Ci. esecare audacias. Ci. Spem longam resecae. Ho. To cut of an hope that one hath long bene in.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
rĕ-sĕco, cŭi, ctum (resecavi, Symm. Ep. 10, 73: resecata, Eum. Grat. Act. ad Const. 11 fin.), 1, v. a., to cut loose, cut off (class.; esp. in the trop. signif.; cf. praecido). I.Lit.: ut linguae scalpello resectae liberarentur, Cic. Div. 2, 46, 96: os, id. Leg. 2, 22, 55: palpebras, id. Pis. 19, 43: enodes truncos, Verg. G. 2, 78: radices, Ov. M. 7, 264: longos ferro capillos, id. ib. 11, 182: de tergore partem Exiguam, id. ib. 8, 650: barba resecta, id. Tr. 4, 10, 58: alas, id. R. Am. 701: extremam partem ipsius unguis ad vivum,
to the quick
, Col. 6, 12, 3; 5, 9, 15: ungues, Val. Max. 3, 2, 15.—II.Trop., to cut off, curtail; to check, stop, restrain: quod aiunt, nimia resecari oportere, naturalia relinqui (shortly after, circumcidere and amputare), Cic. Tusc. 4, 26, 57; cf. id. ib. 4, 20, 46: quae resecanda erunt, non patiar ad perniciem civitatis manere, id. Cat. 2, 5, 11: libidinem, id. Att. 1, 18, 2: audacias et libidines, id. Verr. 2, 3, 89, 208: crimina quaedam cum primā barbā, Juv. 8, 166: spatio brevi Spem longam reseces, Hor. C. 1, 11, 7; cf.: haec (dicta), Plin. Ep. 2, 5, 4; Juv. 8, 166: neque id ad vivum reseco, ut illi qui haec subtilius disserunt, i. e.
nor do I take this in too strict a sense
, Cic. Lael. 5, 18 (v. supra, I.): de vivo aliquid erat resecandum,
