Excise

Webster's Practical Dictionary- A Practical Dictionary of the Englih Language · 1884 · p. 145

eks-siz', v. t. To cut off; to separate and remove. — Excision, -sizh'un, n. Act of, etc.; extirpation; destruction. (Eccl.) Excommunication. (Surg.) Removal, esp. of small parts, with a cutting instrument.