abs-cīdo — Lewis & Short
abs-cīdo, cīdi, cīsum, 3, v. a.caedo,
I to cut off with a sharp instrument (diff. from ab-scindo, to break or tear off as with the hand); the former corresponds to praecidere, the latter to avellere, v. Liv. 31, 34, 4 Drak.
I Lit.:
caput,Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 5; Liv. 4, 19; Verg. A. 12, 511 al.; so,
membra,Lucr. 3, 642:
bracchium,Liv. 4, 28, 8:
collum,Sil. 15, 473:
dextram,Suet. Caes. 68:
linguam,Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 7; Suet. Calig. 27 al.:
comas alicui,Luc. 6, 568:
truncos arborum et ramos,Caes. B. G. 7, 73, 2.—
II Trop., to cut off, deprive of; to detract:
spem (alicui),Liv. 4, 10, 4; 24, 30, 12; 35, 45, 6:
orationem alicui,id. 45, 37, 9:
omnium rerum respectum sibi,id. 9, 23, 12:
omnia praesidia,Tac. H. 3, 78:
vocem,Vell. 2, 66; cf. Quint. 8, 3, 85.—Absol.:
quarum (orationum) alteram non libebat mihi scribere, quia abscideram,had broken off, Cic. Att. 2, 7.—Hence, abscīsus, a, um, P. a., cut off.
A Of places, steep, precipitous (cf. abruptus):
saxum undique abscisum,Liv. 32, 4, 5; so id. 32, 25, 36:
rupes,id. 32, 5, 12.—
B Of speech, abrupt, concise, short:
in voce aut omnino suppressā, aut etiam abscisā,Quint. 8, 3, 85; 9, 4, 118 Halm (al. abscissa):
asperum et abscisum castigationis genus,Val. Max. 2, 7, 14:
responsum,id. 3, 8, 3:
sententia,id. 6, 3, 10; cf. in comp.:
praefractior atque abscisior justitia,id. 6, 5, ext. 4.—Sup. prob. not used.—Adv.: abscīsē, cut off; hence, of speech, concisely, shortly, distinctly, Val. Max. 3, 7, ext. 6; Dig. 50, 6, 5, § 2.