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verb transitive

ex-scalpo

2nd PP ex-scalpāre · conj. 1st
to cut out; shape; to frame figuratively
to cut out, shape. —Trop., to frame, prepare, of a passage in verse: hunc locum nostra poetica scabies coepit exscalpare, Auson. Idyl. 11 praef.
Perseus ID: n17171 Key: exscalpo