(verb) : rē-scindo, scĭdi, scissum, 3
* To cut off, cut loose, cut or break down; to cut or tear open (freq. and class.).
* Lit.: pontem,i. e. to break down,Caes. B. G. 1, 7; 4, 19fin.; 6, 29; 7, 35; 7, 58 fin.; Nep. Milt. 3, 4; Liv. 2, 10; Flor. 3, 10, 3: vallum ac loricam falcibus,Caes. B. G. 7, 86 fin.: pluteos, Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. 95, 22: cameras tectorum,Front. Strat. 3, 4, 6: tecta domusque in usum novae classis,Flor. 2, 15, 10: caelum,Verg. G. 1, 280; id. A. 6, 583: tenuem vestem e membris,Tib. 1, 10, 61: vestes,Claud. B. Gild. 136: decreta,Suet. Calig. 3: ense teli latebram penitus,to cut open,Verg. A. 12, 390: vulnera,Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 63; Flor. 3, 23, 4; Plin. Ep. 7, 19, 9: pectora ferro,Stat. Th. 11, 507: rescisso palato,Luc. 4, 328: plagam,Flor. 4, 2, 72: venam,to open,Col. 6, 30, 5; 7, 10, 2; and poet.: obductos annis luctus,Ov. M. 12, 543: an male sarta Gratia nequidquam coit et rescinditur?Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 32; imitated by Petronius: ne inter initia coëuntis gratiae recentem cicatricem rescinderet,Petr. 113, 8.
* Meton., to open: vias,Lucr. 2,406: locum praesidiis firmatum atque omni ratione obvallatum,Cic. Agr. 2, 1, 3: ferro summum Ulceris os,Verg. G. 3, 453; Col. 7, 5, 10; cf.: latentia vitia (corresp. to aperire),Quint. 9, 2, 93.
* Trop., to annul, abolish, abrogate, repeal, rescind a law, decree, agreement, etc.: mihi non videtur, quod sit factum legibus, Rescindi posse,Ter. Phorm. 2, 4, 16: acta M. Antonii rescidistis, leges refixistis,Cic. Phil. 13, 3, 5; so, acta,id. ib. 2, 42, 109; 13, 3, 5; Liv. 26, 31; Suet. Caes. 82; id. Claud. 11; Flor. 3, 23, 2: acta deūm,Ov. M. 14, 784: jussa Jovis,id. ib. 2, 678: constitutiones senatūs,Suet. Tib. 33: concilia habita,Cic. Leg. 2, 12, 31: totam triennii praeturam,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 57, § 140: rescindere et irritas facere omnes istius injurias,id. ib. 2, 2, 26, § 63: res judicatas,id. Sull. 22, 63; cf. judicium,id. Planc. 4, 10: judicia,Suet. Claud. 29: ambitiosas Centumvir. sententias,id. Dom. 8: pactiones,Cic. Prov. Cons. 5, 10: testamenta mortuorum,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 43, § 111; Quint. 5, 2, 1; Suet. Calig. 38: foedus turpe,Vell. 2, 90, 3.— Poet.: aevi leges validas,Lucr. 5, 58: beneficium suum insequenti injuriā,Sen. Ben. 3, 13: verbum Dei,Vulg. Marc. 7, 13.