inter-cīdo, īdi, īsum, 3, v. a. [caedo], to cut asunder, cut up, cut to pieces, divide, pierce, cut through.
I Lit.: harundinetum, to thin out by cutting , Col. 4, 32, 4: venas, Plin. 11, 37, 65, § 174: radices, id. 18, 19, 49, 2, § 177: olivas acuto calamo, Pall. Nov. 22, 3: lacus, interciso monte, in Nar defluit, Cic. Att. 4, 15, 5; cf.: an Isthmos intercidi possit, Quint. 8, 3, 46: aedis, Dig. 9, 2, 49: flammas ignis, Vulg. Psa. 28, 7: pontem, to cut down , Liv. 36, 6.—
B Esp., of accounts, to mutilate , falsify : commentarios, Plin. Ep. 6, 22, 4: rationes dominicas, Dig. 11, 3, 1, § 5. —
II Transf., to part , divide , cut up , mangle , mutilate , destroy : sententias, to pervert in reading , Gell. 13, 30, 9: lux intercisa, Stat. Th. 2, 184: jugum mediocri valle a castris intercisum, separated , Hirt. B. G. 8, 14: dies intercisi, half-holidays : intercisi dies sunt, per quos mane et vesperi est nefas; medio tempore, inter hostiam caesam et exta porrecta, fas: a quo quod fas tum intercedit: aut eo est intercisum nefas, intercisum, Varr. L. L. 6, § 31 Müll.; cf. Macr. S. 1, 16; Ov. F. 1, 49. — Hence, intercīsē , adv., piecemeal , interruptedly , confusedly , Cic. Part. Or. 7, 24; Gell. 11, 2, 5: dictum, syncopated , id. 15, 3, 4.