descindo

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

dē-scindo, ĕre, 3,

v. a., to divide : Sacerdotes clusi succincti libellis acceptis carmen descindentes tripodaverunt, i. e. marking, in singing, the pauses and measure , Inscr. Frat. Arv. 41. (Henz.; cf.: carmina divides, Hor. Od. 1, 15, 15; acc. to others, absol., parting, dividing into two parties , v. Wordsworth, Fragm. and Specim. p. 391.)