decorticateadj.
Destitute of a cortex or cortical layer: spec. applied to those Lichens which have no cortical layer.
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1872 W. A. Leighton Lichen-flora (ed. 2) p. xxiii.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
decorticatev.
/dɪˈkɔːtɪkeɪt/ a. transitive. To remove the bark, rind, or husk from; to strip of its bark.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > strip of outer layer > strip of skin, husk, or bark
bipilc1230
unrinda1382
slipe?c1390
hull1398
pill1440
husk1562
flay1574
unhusk1598
decorticate1611
depilate1620
rind1623
excorticate1657
disbark1659
1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Nnv Decorticating it [sc. hemp], or as we call it in Somersetshire, scaling it with their fingers.
1620 T. Venner Via Recta v. 90 Wheate decorticated, and boyled in milke, commonly called Frumentie.
1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 763 Black and white Pepper..are the same, only the latter is decorticated.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Cork The Manner of decorticating, or taking off the Bark of the Cork-tree.
1860 M. J. Berkeley Outl. Brit. Fungol. 8 An oak-trunk..felled and decorticated.
b. figurative. To divest of what conceals, to expose.
c. To ‘flay’.
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society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or reveal [verb (transitive)]
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unhelec1000
to draw forthc1175
unhillc1200
to bring forth?c1225
unsteekc1250
let witc1275
uncovera1300
wraya1300
knowc1300
barea1325
shrivec1374
unwrapc1374
again-covera1382
nakena1382
outc1390
tellc1390
disclosea1393
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unhidea1400
unclosec1400
unhaspc1400
bewrayc1405
reveal1409
accusea1413
reveil1424
unlocka1425
unrekec1425
disclude?1440
uncurec1440
utter1444
detect1447
break1463
expose1483
divinec1500
revelate1514
to bring (also put) to light1526
decipher1529
rake1547
rip1549
unshadow1550
to lay to sight1563
uppen1565
unlace1567
unvisor?1571
resign1572
uncloak1574
disshroud1577
spill1577
reap1578
unrip1579
scour1585
unharboura1586
unmask1586
uncase1587
descrya1591
unclasp?1592
unrive1592
discover1594
unburden1594
untomb1594
unhusk1596
dismask1598
to open upc1600
untruss1600
divulge1602
unshale1606
unbrace1607
unveil1609
rave1610
disveil1611
unface1611
unsecret1612
unvizard1620
to open up1624
uncurtain1628
unscreen1628
unbare1630
disenvelop1632
unclothe1632
to lay forth1633
unshroud1633
unmuffle1637
midwife1638
dissecret1640
unseal1640
unmantle1643
to fetch out1644
undisguise1655
disvelop1658
decorticate1660
clash1667
exert1692
disinter1711
to up with1715
unbundlea1739
develop1741
disembosom1745
to open out1814
to let out1833
unsack1846
uncrown1849
to bring (out) in (also into) the open1861
unfrock1866
disbosom1868
to blow the lid off1928
flush1950
surface1955
to take or pull the wraps off1964
1660 E. Waterhouse Disc. Arms & Armory 18 Arms ought to have analogie and proportion to the bearer, and in a great Measure to decorticate his nature, station, and course of life.
1862 London Rev. & Weekly Jrnl. 16 Aug. 148 It is impossible to ‘decorticate’ people, as the writer now and then does, without inflicting pain.
d. intransitive. To peel or come off as a skin.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > become uncovered [verb (intransitive)] > be lost as an outer layer
slip1669
shell1676
to turn off1737
decorticate1805
exfoliate1807
1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 496 The scabs will decorticate and peel off from the scalp.
Derivatives
deˈcorticated adj. ; spec. having had the cortex (cortex n. 3b) removed.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [adjective] > stripped or made bare > stripped of skin, husk, or bark
pilleda1382
peeled?a1425
unrinded1581
excorticated1657
decorticated1798
1798 W. Blair Soldier's Friend (Dublin ed.) 12 Decorticated oats, cut groats, dried peas.
1861 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 3) vii. 232 A cement..with which he had covered decorticated trees.
1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 581 The decorticated seeds of the common barley, the pearl barley of commerce.
1927 G. V. Anrep tr. I. P. Pavlov Conditioned Reflexes i. 14 This difference in the dynamic balance of life between the normal and the decorticated animal.
1933 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Oct. 145 A similar difference in the behaviour of normal and partially decorticated animals.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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