[ad. L. excīdĕ-re to cut out, f. ex- out + cædĕre to cut.] trans. To cut out. Also fig. Hence Excided ppl. a.

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1758.  J. S., Le Dran’s Observ. Surg. (1771), 78. We were obliged to excide … the Bigness of a large Nut.

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1819.  Lamb, Final Mem., To Wordsw. (1848), II. 30. The gods … cut off every seed of envy in his bosom. But with envy, they excided curiosity also.

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1883.  American, VI. 29 Sept., 397/2. The excided parts.

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1888.  Gladstone, in 19th Cent., May, 781. Our Lord’s Divinity (which draws after it all that Robert Elsmere would excide).

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