Abscind

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Abscind \Ab*scind"\, v. t. [L. absindere; ab + scindere to rend,
     cut. See {Schism}.]
     To cut off. [R.] "Two syllables . . . abscinded from the
     rest." --Johnson.
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