STRONGS G664:
													
												
									    		ἀποτόμως, adverb (cf. 
ἀποτομία);
a. abruptly, precipitously.
b. tropically, 
sharply, severely [cf. our 
curtly]: 
Titus 1:13; 
2 Corinthians 13:10. On the adjective 
ἀπότομος cf. Grimm on Sap., p. 121 [who in illustration of its use in Wis. 5:20, 22; Wis. 6:5, 11; Wis. 11:10; Wis. 12:9; Wis. 18:15, refers to the similar metaphorical use in Diodorus 2, 57; Longinus, de sublim. 27; and the use of the Latin 
abscisus in Valerius Maximus, 2, 7, 14, etc.; see also Polybius 17, 11, 2; Polycarp, ad Phil. 6, 1]. 
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