recīdō dī, sus, ere re-+caedo, to cut away, cut down, cut off: sceptrum imo de stirpe, V.: ceras inanīs, empty cells, V.: pueris membra, O.: volnus Ense recidendum est, O.: columnas, hew out, H.

—Fig., to lop off, cut short, retrench, abridge, diminish: ambitiosa Ornamenta, H.: nationes recisae: supplicio culpam, H.