adjective
- cut out or removed; excised
Usage: archaic or technical; past participle of exscind (Latin-derived verb meaning to cut out)
Examples
- The exscinded passage was no longer visible in the final manuscript.
- Medical records showed the exscinded tissue had been sent for analysis.
- The editor's exscinded remarks were restored in the annotated edition.
- An exscinded section of the original text appeared only in scholarly footnotes.