incide

English

Etymology

Latin incidere; prefix in- (“in”) + caedere (“to cut”). See concise, and compare incise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsaɪd/
• Homophone: inside

Verb

incide (third-person singular simple present incides, present participle inciding, simple past and past participle incided) (transitive, obsolete)

1. To separate and remove (something); to cut.
2. To resolve or break up (something), as by medicines.
   • 1671, Robert Boyle, “An Introduction to the History of Particular Qualities. Chapter I.”, in Robert Boyle, Tracts […]. About the Cosmicall Qualities of Things. […], London: […] W[illiam] H[all] for Ric[hard] Davis, →OCLC, page 6:

     [S]ome Bodies taken into that of a Man, are deoppilating, others inciding, reſolving, diſcuſſing, ſuppurating, abſterſive of noxious adherences, and thickning the Blood and humors, being aſtringent, Anodinous or appeaſing paine &c.

     An adjective use.

   • 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], 1st Irish edition, Dublin: […] S. Powell, for George Risk, […], George Ewing, […], and William Smith, […], →OCLC:

     [A]ll Saponaceous Substances, which incide the Mucus in the first Passages […]

References

• “incide”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Cindie, ceinid, dienic, indice

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈt͡ʃi.de/
• Rhymes: -ide
• Hyphenation: in‧cì‧de

Verb

incide

1. third-person singular present indicative of incidere

Anagrams

• Indice, cinedi, cnidie, endici, incedi, indice

Latin

Etymology 1

Form of the verb incidō (“I fall upon”).

Verb

incide

1. second-person singular present active imperative of incidō

Etymology 2

Form of the verb incīdō (“I cut or hew open”).

Verb

incīde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of incīdō

Portuguese

Verb

incide

1. inflection of incidir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

incide

1. inflection of incidir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative