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▪ I. deˈcorticate, a.
[ad. L. dēcorticāt-us, pa. pple. of dēcorticāre: see next.]
Destitute of a cortex or cortical layer: spec. applied to those Lichens which have no cortical layer.
1872Leighton Lichen-Flora Gt. Brit. p. xxiii.
▪ II. decorticate, v.|dɪˈkɔːtɪkeɪt|
[f. ppl. stem of L. dēcorticāre to deprive of its bark, f. de- I. 6 + cortex, cortic-em bark.]
trans. To remove the bark, rind, or husk from; to strip of its bark.
1611Coryat Crudities 472 Decoriticating it [hemp] or as we call it in Somersetshire, scaling it with their fingers. 1620Venner Via Recta v. 90 Wheate decorticated, and boyled in milke, commonly called Frumentie. 1693Phil. Trans. XVII. 763 Black and white Pepper..are the same, only the latter is decorticated. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Cork, The Manner of decorticating, or taking off the Bark of the Cork-tree. 1860Berkeley Brit. Fungol. 8 An oak-trunk..felled and decorticated.
b. fig. To divest of what conceals, to expose.
c. To ‘flay’.
1660Waterhouse Arms & Arm. 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. 1862London Rev. 16 Aug. 148 It is impossible to ‘decorticate’ people, as the writer now and then does, without inflicting pain.
d. intr. To peel or come off as a skin.
1805Med. Jrnl. XIV. 496 The scabs will decorticate and peel off from the scalp.
Hence deˈcorticated ppl. a.; spec. having had the cortex (cortex 3 a) removed.
1798W. Blair Soldier's Friend 12 Decorticated oats, cut groats, dried peas. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. viii. (1872) 208 A cement..with which he had covered decorticated trees. 1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 581 The decorticated seeds of the common barley, the pearl barley of commerce. 1927G. V. Anrep tr. Pavlov's Conditioned Reflexes i. 14 This difference in the dynamic balance of life between the normal and the decorticated animal. 1933Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Oct. 145 A similar difference in the behaviour of normal and partially decorticated animals. |