discide

English

Etymology

From Latin discidere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈsaɪd/
• Homophone: decide

Verb

discide (third-person singular simple present discides, present participle disciding, simple past and past participle discided)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To cut apart; to cut into pieces.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     And both the parts did speake, and both contended;
     And as her tongue so was her hart discided,
     That never thoght one thing, but doubly stil was guided

Latin

Verb

discīde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of discīdō