excarnificate en · VERB
Etymology
From Latin ex (“out”) + carnificatus, past participle carnificare (“to carnify”). Compare Latin excarnificare (“to tear to pieces, torment”). See carnify.
Meanings
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(obsolete, transitive) To strip (something or someone) of flesh, perhaps as a form of torture.
VVhat ſhall vve ſay to the multitudes of thoſe that are thus martyred, […] VVhat are to the racking and excarnificating their bodies, before this laſt puniſhment?
1664, H[enry] More, chapter XV, in A Modest Enquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity, […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher for W[illiam] Morden […], →OCLC, book II, page 167:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| excarnificates | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| excarnificated | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| excarnificated | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| excarnificating | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |