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.