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eviscero

eviscero, to deprive of entrails, disembowel, eviscerate

Frieze-Dennison Vergil

ēviscerō, no perf., ātus, 1, a.: to disembowel, 11.723. (ē and viscus)
ē-viscĕro, no perf., ātum, 1, v. a. (poet. and in post-class. prose).
      • 1 To deprive of the entrails, to disembowel.
    • A Lit., Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 107 (Trag. v. 413 ed. Vahl.); Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 64 fin.— Hence,
      • 2 In gen., to tear to pieces, lacerate: columbam (accipiter), Verg. A. 11, 723.—
    • B Trop.: opes, i.e. to dissipate, squander, exhaust, Cod. Just. 3, 29, 7: fidem, Ambros. Luc. 4, § 26; cf.: cum ceteri amnes abluant terras et eviscerent, Sen. Q. N. 4, 2, 10.—*
  • II To take out of the bowels or interior part.—Transf.: unio e concha evisceratus, Sol. 53 fin.

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