verb transitive

ē-viscĕro

2nd PP ē-viscĕrāre · 3rd PP ē-viscĕrātum · conj. 1st

poetic

perf., ātum, 1, v. a. (poet. and in post-class. prose).

To deprive of the entrails; to disembowel

To deprive of the entrails, to disembowel.

Lit., Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 107 (Trag. v. 413 ed. Vahl.); Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 64 fin.— Hence,

to tear to pieces; lacerate •

In gen., to tear to pieces, lacerate: columbam (accipiter), Verg. A. 11, 723.—

figuratively •

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.—*

To take out of the bowels; interior part by extension •

To take out of the bowels or interior part.—Transf.: unio e concha evisceratus, Sol. 53 fin.

Perseus ID: n16495 Key: eviscero