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▪ I. exenterate, ppl. a.|ɛkˈsɛntərət|
[ad. L. exenterāt-us, pa. pple. of exenterāre: see next.]
= exenterated.
1835Southey in C. C. Southey Life VI. 280 The pig..which..was not yet bacon..scalded, exenterate and hardly yet cold. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. v. 2010 A soldier bee That yields his life exenterate with the stroke O' the sting that saves the hive.
▪ II. exenterate, v.|ɛkˈsɛntəreɪt|
Also 7 exenterat.
[f. L. exenterāt- (exinterāt-) ppl. stem of exenterāre (exinterāre, f. ex- out + Gr. ἔντερ-ον intestine. Cf. Gr. ἐξεντερίζειν.]
1. trans. To take out the entrails of; to eviscerate, disembowel. Obs. in literal sense.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage v. xv. §3 (R.) In this beastly caruing of humane bodies..sometimes exenterating women. 1630Donne Serm. xxv. 246 Such bodies as were exenterated and embowelled and then..plastered about with spices and gums. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xiii. 136 Nor doe they [toads] containe..urinary parts..as may appeare unto any that exenterats or dissects them. a1697Aubrey Life Bacon in Lett. Emin. Persons (1813) II. 227 They went into a poore woman's house..and bought a hen, and made the woman exenterate it. 1721–1800in Bailey.
fig.1636W. Ambrose in Ann. Dubrensia 37 Summon the world, exenterate old stories. 1641Frogs of Egypt 5 Great God!..Who justly dost exenterate with shame All Enemies to Thee. 1822Southey Lett. (1856) III. 337 A boxful of papers..which I have to read and exenterate. 1886Blackie in 19th Cent. Apr. 535 Exenterating itself of its own better soul.
†2. To take out (the bowels or internal parts).
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 21 The reins [of an Ape] exenterated, bruised and put into new pure wine. 1609Bp. Barlow Answ. Nameless Catholic 68 A Carrionly Curre, entring her Tombe, and exenterrating her very bowels to staunch his rage.
trans.1612J. Cotton Dang. Pract. Physic ii. i. 88 They unlawfully exenterate and eate out the bowels of poore mens purses. 1623Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. ii. 212 It [riches] exenterates and pulls out the very bowells from the profoundest parts of the earth.
Hence eˈxenterated ppl. a., deprived of entrails, disembowelled: also fig. eˈxenterating vbl. n.
1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 88 Exenterated animals..are stuffed with medicamental things. 1663Flagellum or O. Cromwell (1672) 17 The Kingdom had one Viper more fostered, to the exenterating of her bowels. 1827Hare Guesses (1859) 141 Exenterated rulemongers and eviscerated logicians. 1857Kingsley Two Y. Ago I. 60 Fragments of exenterated maids (belonging to the order Pisces). |