Contextualizebeta

discerp

verb
/dɪˈsɜː(ɹ)p/

Etymology

From Latin discerpō, from dis- + carpō (“to pluck”).

  1. derived from discerpō

Definitions

  1. To tear into pieces

    To tear into pieces; to rend.

    • They would therefore ſay, that tho' these two, the father and the son, are different divine personalities, yet they cannot be called two Gods, or two godheads; for this would be discerping the deity or godhead , which is equally absurd

  2. To separate

    To separate; to disunite.

    • […] to reascend the place from whence they came, and rejoin that Substance from whence they were discerped […]

The neighborhood

Derived

discerpible, discerptive, discerptor

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for discerp. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA