excarnification (ekskarnifikashon)

[ ex cathedra. See cathedra. excathedrate (eks-kath'e-drāt), v . t .; pret. and pp. excathedrated , ppr. excathedrating . [ ex cathedra + -ate2.] To condemn with author- ity, or ex cathedra. [Rare.] Whom sho'd I feare to write to, if I can Stand before you, my learn'd diocesan? And never shew blood-guilt in e e or feare To see my lines excathedrated here. Herrick, Hesperides, p. 66. excaudate (eks-ka'dāt), a. [ ecaudate. excavate (eks'ka-vāt), v. t.; pret. and pp. ex make hollow, Faber himself put a you sand of them [cups turned of ivory by Oswaldus Nor linger of Suevia] into an excavated Ray, Works of Creation, i. pepper corn. 2. To form by scooping or hollowing make by digging out material, as from the earth: as, to excavate a tunnel or a cellar. Striges.. are those excavated channels, by our workmen called flutings and grooves. Evelyn , Architecture. It is only when we examine the chasm more minutely, and find that it has actually been excavated out of the solid rock, that we begin to see that the work has been done by running water. J. Croll , Climate and Cosmology, p. 11. I was living at this period in a tomb, which was exca vated in the side of the precipice, above Sheick Abd el Gournoo. R. Curzon , Monast. in the Levant, p. 102. excavate, excavated (eks'ka-vāt, -va-ted), a. In zool.: (a) Formed as if by excavation; hollowed, but having the inner surface irregularly rounded. The front is deeply excavated for the insertion of the antennæ. Packard . ( b ) Widely and irregularly notched: said of a margin or mark. – Excavated palpi, in entom ., those palpi in which the last joint is concave at its apex. excavation (eks-kā-vā'shon), n . [= F. excava tion = Sp. excavacion = Pg. excavação = It. es cavazione , excavatio ( n- ), excavare , hollow out: see excavate .] 1. The act of making a thing hollow by removing the interior substance or part; the digging out of material, or its removal by any means, so as to form a cavity or hollow: as, the excavation of land by flowing water. The appearance therefore of the dry land was by the excavation of certain sinus and tracts of the earth, and exaggerating and lifting up other parts of the terrestrial matters. Sir M. Hale , Orig. of Mankind, p. 299. 2. A hollow or cavity formed by removing the interior substance: as, many animals burrow in excavations of their own forming. A grotto is not often the wish or the pleasure of an English man, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden. Johnson, Pope. 3. In eng in., an open cutting, as in a railway, in distinction from a tunnel.-4. In zoöl., a deep and somewhat irregular hollow with well defined edges, as if a piece had been taken out of the surface. IMG:content-0855.png:[merged small][graphic][subsumed][merged small] loosens the sod, while an endle band armed with buckets scoops the soil, raises it, and throws it out at one side of the machine. The transporting excavator loosens the soil and raises it upon a traveling apron to a hopper. When the hopper is full the machine is dragged away upon a carrying-line to the place where the load is to be discharged. (b) An instrument used by artists in removing carious parts of a tooth preparatory to filling it.--Odorle excavator, an apparatus consisting of a pump, tank, and odor-consumer, used for emptying ce pools. - Pneumatic excavator, an apparatus for raising by pneumatic force sand, silt, etc., from a shaft in excavating, or for sinking a pile by means of air-pre ure. excavet (eks-kāv'), v. t. [ excecation