concerpo

con-cerpo, psi, ptum, 3, v. a. [carpo], to pluck, pull, or tear in pieces, to rend (rare).

I.

Prop.:

epistulas,

Cic. Att. 10, 12, 3:

librum,

Liv. 38, 55, 11; cf. Gell. 4, 18, 12; cf.

litteras,

Suet. Ner. 47:

folia coronae concerpta,

Plin. 21, 3, 9, § 13:

linteolum,

lint, id. 28, 15, 61, § 216; 31, 9, 45, § 100.—

* II.

Trop. (acc. to carpo, II. B. b. a), to abuse, revile, censure: Curionem ferventissime, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6, 5.