Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Exasciatus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

EXASCIA'TUS. Hewn out of the rough, and into shape with a carpenter's adze (ascia); and, as this was the first operation before finishing and polishing with other and finer tools, the expression opus exasciatum implies a work already somewhat advanced; i. e., in which all the preliminaries have been successfully got through. Plaut. As. ii. 2. 93.