The corpus record — Latin

eviscero

To deprive of the entrails

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Where it lives

In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

ē-viscĕro — Lewis & Short

ē-viscĕro, no

I perf., ātum, 1, v. a. (poet. and in post-class. prose).

1 To deprive of the entrails, to disembowel.

A Lit., Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 107 (Trag. v. 413 ed. Vahl.); Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 64 fin.— Hence,

2 In gen., to tear to pieces, lacerate: columbam (accipiter), Verg. A. 11, 723.—

B Trop.: opes, i. e. to dissipate, squander, exhaust, Cod. Just. 3, 29, 7: fidem, Ambros. Luc. 4, § 26; cf.: cum ceteri amnes abluant terras et eviscerent, Sen. Q. N. 4, 2, 10.—*

II To take out of the bowels or interior part.—Transf.: unio e concha evisceratus, Sol. 53 fin.

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