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depiece en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /diːˈpiːs/ (UK)

Etymology

From de- + piece.

Meanings

1. (rare) To remove pieces from; to take apart, disassemble.
   • An ornate set of symbolically retaliatory tortures [...] proceeded with quasi-liturgical exactitude, climaxing in the efforts of four champing horses to pull Damiens's limbs out from his body (in a gruesome twist, his body stubbornly refused to be depieced, and had to be further chopped and battered by public executioner Sanson). 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 231:
   • Mind, being an action of the Infinite, depieces as well as aggregates ad infinitum. 1920, Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Lotus Press, published 2000, page 180:

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