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decaudare

decaudare [cf. caudare] , to dock, deprive of tail. b (fig.) to curtail, diminish. [archiepiscopus] terribili sententia damnavit unum de regalibus qui ‥ equos ‥ ad ipsius contumeliam ~avit Grim Thom. 74; 13‥ minabatur ‥ monachis quod, si ipse aliquos illorum inveniret equites, equos ~aret (Reg. Pipewell) MonA V 437a; ~o, to kytte of the tayle WW.  b Gower VC V 819 (v. apocope 1b).

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