discerp Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb divide into pieces
    dismember; take apart.
    • our department was dismembered when our funding dried up
    • The Empire was discerped after the war
  2. verb cut off from a whole
    lop; sever.
    • His head was severed from his body
    • The soul discerped from the body

WordNet

Dis*cerp" transitive verb
Etymology
L. discerpere, discerptum; dis- + carpere to pluck.
Definitions
  1. To tear in pieces; to rend. R. Stukeley.
  2. To separate; to disunite. R. Bp. Hurd.

Webster 1913