Part 4019

<h1>Excommunicator</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex`com*mu"ni*ca`tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. LL. <ets>excommunicator</ets>.]</ety> <def>One who excommunicates.</def>

<h1>Excommunion</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex`com*mun"ion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><def>. A shutting out from communion; excommunication.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote><b>Excommunication</b> is the utmost of ecclesiastical judicature. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Excoriable</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex*co"ri*a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><def>. Capable of being excoriated.</def>

<blockquote> The scaly covering of fishes, . . . even in such as are <b>excoriatable,/qex>.</def> <i>Sir T. Browne.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Eccoriate</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ec*co"ri*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Excoriated</er> <tt>(?)</tt>;<tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>excoriating</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>excoriare</ets>; <ets>ex</ets> out + <ets>corium</ets> hide. cf. <er>Scourge</er>; see <er>Cuirass</er>.]</ety> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Excoriation</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex*co`ri*a"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>excoriation</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Stripping of possession; spoliation.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>A pitiful <b>excoriation</b> of the poorer sort. <i>Howell.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Excorticate</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex*cor"ti*cate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>ex</ets> out, from + <ets>cortex</ets>, <ets>corticis</ets>, bark.]</ety> <def>To strip of bark or skin; to decorticate.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "<i>Excorticate</i> the tree."

<i>Evelyn.</i>

<h1>Excortication</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex*cor`ti*ca"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>excortication</ets>.]</ety> <def>The act of stripping off bark, or the state of being thus stripped; decortication.</def>

<h1>Excreable</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex"cre*a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>excreabilis</ets>, <ets>exscreabilis</ets>, fr. <ets>exscreare</ets>. See <er>Excreate</er>.]</ety> <def>Capable of being discharged by spitting.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Swift.</i>

<h1>Excreate</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex"cre*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>excreare</ets>, <ets>exsreare</ets>; <ets>ex</ets> out + <ets>screare</ets> to hawk.]</ety> <def>To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Cockeram.</i>

<h1>Excreation</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex`cre*a"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>excreatio</ets>, <ets>exscreatio</ets>.]</ety> <def>Act of spitting out.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Cockeram.</i>