(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:35:41

Ab*scind" (#), v. t. [L. absindere; ab + scindere to rend, cut. See Schism.]

To cut off.

[R.] "Two syllables . . . abscinded from the rest."

Johnson.

 

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