excide

[ik-sahyd]

verb (used with object)

excided, exciding 

1. to cut out; excise.

excide

/ ɪkˈsaɪd /

verb

1. rare,  (tr) to cut out; excise

Word History and Origins

Origin of excide¹

1750–60; < Latin excīdere to cut out, equivalent to ex- ex- ¹ + -cīdere (combining form of caedere to cut)

Word History and Origins

Origin of excide¹

C18: from Latin excīdere to cut off, from caedere to cut

Example Sentences

Excide, ek-sid′, v.t. to cut off.

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"Same time tha'z good to be induztriouz"--this was all said directly above the moaning child--"while tha'z bad, for the sick, to talk ad the bedside, and we can't stay with you and not talk, and we can't go in that front yard; that gate is let open so the doctor he needn' ring and that way excide the patient; and we can't go in the back garden"--they spread their hands and dropped them; the back garden was hopelessly pre-empted.

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Unable to ignore or excide what filled so much of the imagination of the country, and unable, as Christians, to believe in the divinity of the Tu�tha De Danan and their predecessors, they rationalised all the pre-Milesian record.

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