eviscero

ē-viscĕro, no perf., ātum, 1, v. a. ( poet. and in post-class. prose).

1.

To deprive of the entrails, to disembowel.

A.

Lit., Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 107 (Trag. v. 413 ed. Vahl.); Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 64 fin. — Hence,

2.

In gen., to tear to pieces, lacerate:

columbam (accipiter),

Verg. A. 11, 723.—

B.

Trop.:

opes,

i. e. to dissipate, squander, exhaust, Cod. Just. 3, 29, 7:

fidem,

Ambros. Luc. 4, § 26; cf.:

cum ceteri amnes abluant terras et eviscerent,

Sen. Q. N. 4, 2, 10.—

* II.

To take out of the bowels or interior part. — Transf.:

unio e concha evisceratus,

Sol. 53 fin.