incide

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incide

  • /ɪnˈsaɪd/

Sounds like inside · Rhymes with -aɪd

Where it comes from

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

verb incides · inciding · incided

  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.

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