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exhumate, v.|ˈɛkshjuːmeɪt|
Also 6 pa. pple. exhumate.
[f. med.L. exhumāt- ppl. stem of exhumā-re to exhume.]
= exhume v. lit. and fig.
1548Hall Chron. (1809) 796 The Kyng hearyng his subject to be exhumate and brent without his knowledge. 1619‘R. Jones’ [Lushington] in Phenix (1708) II. 480 The Women gave the Watch-word to the Disciples, who immediately do exhumate his Body. 1715M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. 175 His [Wiclif's] Body was Exhumated and Burnt. Ibid. I. 272 The present Sermon-maker would needs exhumate poor Fryar John. 1846Worcester cites Dr. Hitchcock. 1881Gd. Words XXII. 45/1 The writer whose hands are cramped with the pen will draw his legs from under the desk, and..exhumating his knapsack, dry with a winter's dust, [will] make straight for the mountain. |