excarnate

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The going was easier to propose than to carry out: for in bygone days, when the Padres of Old Spain were building New Spain, Mission churches had to protect their flocks against the devil incarnate as well as excarnate.

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  1. To deprive or clear of flesh; separate, as blood-vessels, from the surrounding fleshy parts. He [Dr. Glesson] hath likewise given us certain notes for the more easy distinguishing of the vena cava, porta, and vasa fellea in excarnating the liver. Wood, Fasti, I.
  2. Divested of flesh; disembodied. Sears.

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  • The psychic must learn to regard it as a perfectly natural experience that the spiritual states and positive thoughts of excarnate people should impinge upon his spiritual sphere, and while 'attentive to the holy vision,' should calmly accept the fact and maintain the attitude or response; not anxiously nor demandingly, but thankfully enjoying the spiritual communion and illumination thus afforded to him. —  Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers
  • Can you escape the conclusion that, behind all this welter of races and separate histories aloof or barking at each other, there is yet somewhere, within the ringfence of humankind, incarnate or excarnate, One Center from which all the threads and currents proceed, and all the great upward impulses are directed? —  The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
  • The going was easier to propose than to carry out: for in bygone days, when the Padres of Old Spain were building New Spain, Mission churches had to protect their flocks against the devil incarnate as well as excarnate. —  The Port of Adventure
 

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  1. from Middle Latin excarnatus, past participle of excarnare (later Portuguese escarnar = French excarner), deprive of flesh, from Latin ex- privative + caro (carn-), flesh. Cf. incarnate.
  2. from Middle Latin excarnatus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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