scise

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin scindere, scissum (to cut, split); form influenced by the unrelated excise.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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scise (third-person singular simple present scises, present participle scising, simple past and past participle scised)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To cut; to penetrate.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for scise”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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