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exscind
/ɛk(s)ˈsɪnd/
verb 2
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2ADJ.
sinful
VERB + EXSCIND
land
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verb
1
To cut out.
It should be mentioned that matter which has became^([sic]) untrue by the progress of events since the first edition of this book has been carefully exscinded.
2
To destroy utterly, to extirpate.
Had this Monster no more Horns than Zechary saw in that prophetical Vision, had this Hydra no more heads than Alexander's World had Kingdoms […] my success hitherto might give me hopes, at last to excind the last of them.
O for their Prayers my Anglia’s Doom suspend! / […] / The sinful Land exscind not, but reprove, […]
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It should be mentioned that matter which has became^([sic]) untrue by the progress of events since the first edition of this book has been carefully exscinded.
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Had this Monster no more Horns than Zechary saw in that prophetical Vision, had this Hydra no more heads than Alexander's World had Kingdoms […] my success hitherto might give me hopes, at last to exc
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O for their Prayers my Anglia’s Doom suspend! / […] / The sinful Land exscind not, but reprove, […]
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