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exenteration|ɛksɛntəˈreɪʃən|
[as if ad. L. *exenterātiōn-em, n. of action f. exenterāre: see exenterate.]
1. The action or process of exenterating or taking out the entrails.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxi. 157 Upon exenteration he found these animals in their bellies. 1705T. Greenhill Embalming 121 If we can arrive at this Perfection, without Exenteration or Incision. 1823Moore Rhymes on Road Introd. 59 A hero..wrote..'mid all the pains And horrors of exenteration, Nine charming odes. 1884Cornh. Mag. July 69 There is no exenteration, no steeping in palm-wine.
fig.1808Lamb Charac. Dram. Writers Wks. 531 A faint bodily image of this..exenteration of the inmost mind. 1850Kingsley Alt. Locke xix, There is self-exenteration enough and to spare in my story.
2. The condition of being devoid of entrails.
1831Fraser's Mag. IV. 633 A lankness of figure that denoted almost utter exenteration. |