To cut off or remove something by cutting (a rare or archaic legal or medical term).
From Latin de- (from, away) + caedere (to cut), creating a word meaning 'to cut away.' This term survives mainly in historical legal documents and old medical texts.
Latin gave us tons of 'cut' words: decide (cut off discussion), incise (cut into), excise (cut out), and decise (cut away)—medieval lawyers and doctors could express surgery with classical precision!
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