tear (away/off) (clothing); cut off/away/short
Latin word, found 24 times in the texts on Socratos.
Vergil, Georgics 2.23: Hic plantas tenero abscindens de corpore matrum
Vergil, Aeneid 4.590: flaventesque abscissa comas, Pro Iuppiter, ibit
Horace, Sermones 2.3.303: ‘quid, caput abscissum manibus cum portat Agave
All forms of abscindo