exscind

Verb

exscind (third-person singular simple present exscinds, present participle exscinding, simple past and past participle exscinded)

1. To cut out.
   • It should be mentioned that matter which has became^([sic]) untrue by the progress of events since the first edition of this book has been carefully exscinded.1902 September 1, H. T. Kealing, “A Statement”, in William C. Neill, Colored Americans in the Wars of 1776 and 1812
2. (Late, Modern, obsolete) To destroy utterly, to extirpate.
   • Had this Monster no more Horns than Zechary saw in that prophetical Vision, had this Hydra no more heads than Alexander's World had Kingdoms […] my success hitherto might give me hopes, at last to excind the last of them.1675, John Smith, Christian Religion’s Appeal from the Groundless Prejudices of the Sceptick to the Bar of Common Reason […], page 129
   • O for their Prayers my Anglia’s Doom suspend! / […] / The sinful Land exscind not, but reprove, […]a. 1711, Thomas Ken, “Edmund: An Epic Poem”, in The Works of the Right Reverend, Learned and Pious Thomas Ken, D. D. […], volume 2, published 1721, page 351