excarnificate

From Latin ex (“out”) + carnificatus, past participle carnificare (“to carnify”). Compare Latin excarnificare (“to tear to pieces, torment”). See carnify.

excarnificate (third-person singular simple present excarnificates, present participle excarnificating, simple past and past participle excarnificated)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To strip (something or someone) of flesh, perhaps as a form of torture.

   Synonym: excarnate

   • 1664, H[enry] More, chapter XV, in A Modest Enquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity, […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher for W[illiam] Morden […], →OCLC, book II, page 167:

     VVhat ſhall vve ſay to the multitudes of thoſe that are thus martyred, […] VVhat are to the racking and excarnificating their bodies, before this laſt puniſhment?

• “excarnificate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.