excantationt (ekskantashon)

[ * excantatio ( n- ), They. which imagine that the mynde is eyther by incantation or excantation to bee ruled are as far from trueth as the East from the West. Lyly, Euphues and his England, p. 349. The don-enchanted in his cage, out of which there was no po ibility of getting out, but by the power of a higher excantation . Gayton, Notes on Don Quixote, p. 277. excarnate (eks-kär'nāt), v. t.; pret. and pp. excarnated , ppr. excarnating . [ excarna tus , pp. of excarnare (> Pg. escarnar = F. excarner), deprive of flesh, ex- priv. + caro (carn-), flesh. Cf. incarnate .] To deprive or clear of flesh; separate, as blood-ve els, from the surrounding fleshy parts. He [Dr. Gle on] hath likewise given us certain notes for the more easy distinguishing of the vena cava, porta, and vasa fellea in excarnating the liver. Wood, Fasti, excarnate (eks-kär'nāt), a. [ est i IMG:content-0854.jpg:[blocks in formation] 2. In the preparation of casts of anatomical cavities (as of the blood-ve els of an organ or of the air-pa ages of the lungs), the removal of the ti ues, as by a corrosive liquid, after the cavities have been filled with a hardening injection.