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Excoriation   Listen
noun
Excoriation  n.  
1.
The act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion.
2.
Stripping of possession; spoliation. (Obs.) "A pitiful excoriation of the poorer sort."





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"Excoriation" Quotes from Famous Books



... contagion of suspicion and fear was among us, and there is no such contagion under the sky. The women (their noses in a chronic state of excoriation from smelling-salts) were always primed and loaded for a swoon, and ready to go off with hair- triggers. The two elder detached the Odd Girl on all expeditions that were considered doubly hazardous, and she always established the reputation of such adventures by coming back cataleptic. ...
— The Signal-Man #33 • Charles Dickens
... very well. Orpheus played upon the harp, while she sung, about some four years after the contention betwixt Apollo and Pan, and a little before the excoriation ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. IX • Various
... freshers as they row To and fro, Up and down the Lower River for an afternoon or so— (For the deft manipulation Of the never-resting oar, Though it lead to approbation, Will induce excoriation)— They are infinitely sore, Keeping time, time, time In a sort of Runic rhyme Up and down the way to Iffley in an afternoon or so; (Which is slow). Do they blow? 'Tis the wind and nothing more, 'Tis the wind that in Vacation has a tendency to go: But the coach's objurgation and his tendency to ...
— Green Bays. Verses and Parodies • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... or the quality may be bad, so that it is thick and gross and cannot flow out as it ought to do, but only in drops. The signs will best be ascertained by the patient's own account, but there will be pains in the head, stomach and back, with inflammation, difficulty of breathing and excoriation of the matrix. If the patient's strength will permit it, first open a vein in the arm, rub the upper parts and let a cord be fastened tightly round the arm, so that the force of the blood may be carried backward; then apply such ...
— The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher • Anonymous


Words linked to "Excoriation" :   scrape, rope burn, scratch, lesion, denunciation, denouncement, graze, abrasion, excoriate, wound


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