abscidere

abscidere [CL] 1 a to cut off, amputate, mutilate (part of body). b to cut down or lop (trees). c to cut off (cloth). d to cut (purses). a abscisis nervorum nexibus Aldh. VirgP 32 p. 273; quidam [tumorem] ~endum esse docebant Bede HE IV 32; furtum facit exoculatos, / ‥ testes abscisos D. Bec. 1787; non debet quis membra pudoris realiter ~ere Neckam NR II 140; 1202 ~it ei digitos suos, ita quod inde maimatus est SelPlCrown 35; 1209 unam damam habentem gorgiam abscisam SelPlForest 3; 1272 abciderunt caput unius dami Ib. 38.  b 1194 de placito bosci abscisi CurR RC I 67; 1291 forestam ‥ nec infeodari volumus nec ~i RGasc III 22; c1340 ne quis ‥ arbores alienas abcidat FormOx 160.  c si palla altaris inde tincta fuerit, recidenda est illa particula et penitus ~enda Cust. Cant. 287.  d 1199 appellat R. ‥ quod ‥ ~it bursam suam et ostendit bursam †assisam [l. abscisam] CurR RC I 315; 1299 burse plurim[or]um hominum ad illas nundinas veniencium abscise fuerunt SelCKB III 87. 2 (p. ppl. m.) kind of gem (? cf.Dan. ii 34: abscissus est lapis de monte). abscisus est gemma nigra ponderosa distincta venis rubentibus Bart. Angl. XVI 51.