Lewis & Short

ē-viscĕro, no perf., ātum, 1, v. a. (poet. and in post-class. prose).

    1. 1. To deprive of the entrails, to disembowel.
  1. A. Lit., Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 107 (Trag. v. 413 ed. Vahl.); Pac. ap. Cic. Div. 2, 64 fin.
    Hence,
    1. 2. In gen., to tear to pieces, lacerate: columbam (accipiter), Verg. A. 11, 723.
  2. 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.