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Posted By:
Jackie
exscind
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05/17/13
02:28 PM
How did this word, so close orthographically to excise, and with the exact same meaning, come into being? Or did it come first and excise is the copycat?
Posted By:
zmjezhd
Re: exscind
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05/17/13
02:59 PM
Nope, they're from two different Latin verbs. Excise is from
excaedere
and exscind is from
exscindere
. Both with roughly the same meaning.
Posted By:
Jackie
Re: exscind
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05/19/13
01:30 AM
Thank you, sir.
Posted By:
zmjezhd
Re: exscind
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05/20/13
04:43 PM
You're welcome.
[Just now occurred to me that I have to post more to catch up with Faldo.]
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