exscindo

ex-scindo ( exc- ), ĭdi, issum, 3, v. a. (lit., to tear out; hence, in gen.), to extirpate, destroy (syn.: delere, evertere, vastare).

I.

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.—

II.

Trop., to tear away: fortine animam hanc exscindere dextra indignum est visum? Sil. 4, 674. (In Plin. Pan. 34, 2, read excidisti).