Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To divide; cut in pieces; cleave.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To divide; to cleave in two.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
cut apart; to cut into pieces.
Etymologies
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From Latin discidere.
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Examples
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Swoordes should discide the difference, and our blood: in priuate teares lament his entertainement.
Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590
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Cupid smiled to his ears, but it was the absentee's two mistresses who answered for her, volubly, tenderly: "We was going to bring her, but juz 'at the lazt she discide' she di'n 'want to come.
The Flower of the Chapdelaines George Washington Cable 1884
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