(verb) : ex-scindo (exc-), ĭdi, issum, 3, (lit., to tear out; hence, in gen.)
* To extirpate, destroy (syn.: delere, evertere, vastare).
* 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.
* Trop., to tear away: fortine animam hanc exscindere dextra indignum est visum? Sil. 4, 674. (In Plin. Pan. 34, 2, read excidisti).

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