decurtare

decurtare [CL] 1 to dock, deprive of tail. b to cut off. s1170 equum ‥ archiepiscopi victualia deferentem ad dedecus et ignominiam ejus ~averat Diceto YH 342.  b s1250 adhuc aliquorum [Sarracenorum] supervenientium capita, manus vel pedes mutilando ~abat M. Par. Maj. V 153. 2 to cut short. b to abbreviate. c to diminish. d (w. abl.) to deprive (of). c710 ubi ad cervicem considerando perveneris, ~atam eam ‥ invenies coronam, ut merito talem Simoniacis et non Christianis habitum convenire cognoscas (Ceolfrith) Bede HE V 21 p. 343; trabem ~avit F. Malm. V. Aldh. 72A; ~entur interiores [vestes, sc. femoralia] a zona tunice, manente suprema Map NC I 25 f. 20.  b satisne protractum tibi videor sermonem texuisse et quod in superioribus ~atum fuerat supplesse in isto? G. Hoyland Ascet. 251; qui nomen meum [sc. Matheum] sincopat ‥ incurate ~asti (Lit.) M. Rievaulx 74.  c Judeus limites hereditarios ~abat, dicens quia tantummodo notus esset in Judea Deus P. Blois Serm. 24. 631B.  d fratris mei ‥ honorem m militum ‥ vos feudo cc et xl militum ~astis W. Fitzst. Thom. 102.