I.perf., sectum āre, v. a., to cut or pare around: “radices vitium,” Cato, R. R. 114, 1: “ungulas,” Col. 6, 6, 4: “tuberculum ferro,” id. 7, 5, 13: aliquid serrulā, to saw around, * Cic. Clu. 64, 180: “circumsecta aluta,” Scrib. Comp. 229.—*
II. To circumcise, of the Jews (usu. circumcido), Suet. Dom. 12.