ABSCIND

ABSCIND', verb transitive [Latin abscindo.] To cut off. [Little used.]

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abscind. Abscind, v.t. to cut off, pare off, rend off or away

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Ab‐scind″ (�), v. t. [[L. absindere; ab + scindere to rend, cut. See Schism.]] To cut off. “Two syllables . . . abscinded from the rest.” Johnson.