Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deprive of flesh; free from flesh.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To clear of flesh; to excarnate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To
strip offlesh ; toexcarnate .
Etymologies
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Latin ex out + carnificatus, past participle carnificare to carnify; compare Latin excarnificare to tear to pieces, torment. See carnify.
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Examples
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"though I did excarnificate his sides," would not stir until a gentleman of the court drew his rapier and ran him to the "buttock."
The Story of Paris Thomas Okey 1893
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