Definition of Excoreate
Ex*co"ri*ate (?), v. t. [imp. &
p. p. Excoriated (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. excoriating (?).] [L. excoriare; ex
out + corium hide. cf. Scourge; see Cuirass.]
To strip or wear off the skin of; to abrade; to gall; to break
and remove the cuticle of, in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or
by the action of acrid substances.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- to wear off the skin of; to chafe
- to strongly renounce or censure
- 2004, China Miéville, Iron Council, p. 464 (2005 Trade paperback edition, ISBN 0-345-45842-7) -- Madeleina di Farja had described Ori, and Cutter had envisaged an angry, frantic, pugnacious boy eager to fight, excoriating his comrades for supposed quiesence.
- one who excoriates
- the act of excoriating
- the results of such acts
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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