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excoriation|ɛksˌkɔərɪeɪʃən|
[f. excoriate v.: see -ation. Cf. F. excoriation.]
1. The action of excoriating; the state of being excoriated:
†a. the action or process of flaying (a man or beast (obs.));
b. the action of abrading a portion of the cuticle, or of the coating of any organ of the body; an instance of this;
c. the action of stripping off (the bark of a tree).
a.1607Brewer Lingua iii. v, A little before the excoriation of Marsyas. 1635Austin Medit. 220 Some keep the day of his [Bartholomew's] Excoriation; and some, the day of his Decollation holy. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. ii. ix. 141 After the killing of the Holocaust, follows the excoriation, and dissection.
b.1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 259 The reed flyx..wyth of the guttys excoryacyoun Sendyth owte sangweyn agestyoun. 1578Lyte Dodoens iv. lxxx. 544 They drinke it [tragacanth]..against excoriation or knawing of the bladder. 1596Danett tr. Comines 296 A sharpe sicknes of excoriation and the stone. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. xxii. 84 What Flagellations and Excoriations of the Body. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 133 ⁋3, I was punished with artificial excoriations in hopes of gaining new graces with a new skin. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VII. 99 The Germans..complained of a slight excoriation of the lips. 1813W. Heberden in Med. Trans. (1815) V. 39 Stopping the Excoriation..consequent upon continual Pressure in Bed. 1844Tupper Twins xv, Lash, lash, lash, in furious and fast succession..to the universal excoriation of Mr. Julian Tracy.
c.1830J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. 125 The constant excoriation of the bark also produces a variety of hues.
2. fig.
1640Howell Dodona's Gr. 207 Hee hath marvailously enhanc'd the revenues..of the Crowne, though with a pitifull excoriation of the poorer sort. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. Apol. 22 It is the excoriation and exulceration of mens spirits that usually causeth the smart.
3. An excoriated place (on the body): a sore.
c1540in Vicary's Anat. App. ix. (1888) 221 A plastre devised by the kinges Maiestie at Grenewich, and made at Westminstre, to..heale excoriacions. 1751Chambers Cycl. s.v., He had a grievous excoriation behind, with riding post. 1874tr. Van Buren's Dis. Genit. Org. 19 The epithelium comes off in patches, leaving irregular excoriations.
Add:[2.] b. Scathing criticism, invective; also, an instance of this.
1924H. Crane Let. 5 Dec. (1965) 196 Factions, gossip, jealousies, recriminations, excoriations and the whole literary shee-bang. 1975Economist 11 Oct. 38/1 Senator Hubert Humphrey..gave delight with his excoriation of President Ford's policies or lack of them. 1987Legal Times 2 Mar. 6/1 ‘Bitter denunciations and excoriations’..against lawyers in general. |