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incide en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ɪnˈsaɪd/

Etymology

From Latin incīdere; prefix in- (“in”) + caedere (“to cut”). See concise, and compare incise.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To separate and remove (something); to cut.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To resolve or break up (something), as by medicines.
    • [S]ome Bodies taken into that of a Man, are deoppilating, others inciding, reſolving, diſcuſſing, ſuppurating, abſterſive of noxious adherences, and thickning the Blood and humors, being aſtringent, Anodinous or appeaſing paine &c. 1671, Robert Boyle, “An Introduction to the History of Particular Qualities. Chapter I.”, in Tracts […]. About the Cosmicall Qualities of Things. […], London: […] W[illiam] H[all] for Ric[hard] Davis, →OCLC, page 6:
    • [A]ll Saponaceous Substances, which incide the Mucus in the first Passages […] 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
inciding Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
incides Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
incided Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
incided Tense=Past lexicographic

Translations (1)

es incidir (Translations)