exscind
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Is exscind a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (chiefly medicine, surgery) To cut out.Examples: "It should be mentioned that matter which has became^([sic]) untrue by the progress of events since the first edition of this book has been carefully exscinded."
2. (obsolete, Late Modern) To destroy utterly, to extirpate.Examples: "Had this Monster no more Horns than Zechary saw in that prophetical Vision, had this Hydra no more heads than Alexander's World had Kingdoms […] my success hitherto might give me hopes, at last to excind the last of them."; "O for their Prayers my Anglia’s Doom suspend! / […] / The sinful Land exscind not, but reprove, […]"; "[…] how can any government, who pretends to be free […] thus exscind the rights, the privileges, the talents, and public services of their brethren and fellow citizens, merely because they cannot advance the price of three days labour, or should happen, either from original poverty, or subsequent misfortunes, to be in the state of menial servitude?"LateModernobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary