abscind

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abscind - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Abscind \Ab*scind"\, v. t. [L. absindere; ab + scindere to rend,
     cut. See Schism.]
     To cut off. [R.] "Two syllables . . . abscinded from the
     rest." --Johnson.
     [1913 Webster]