incide
verb/ɪnˈsaɪd/
Etymology From Latin incīdere; prefix in- (“in”) + caedere (“to cut”). See concise, and compare incise.
1
Obsolete To separate and remove (something); to cut.
2
Obsolete 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: