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exhume, v.|ɛksˈhjuːm|
[ad. F. exhume-r, ad. med.L. exhum-āre (13th c. in Du Cange), f. ex- out + hum-us ground.]
1. trans. To dig out or remove (something buried) from beneath the ground.
1783Watson Philip III (L.), More than a dozen bodies were thus unnecessarily exhumed. 1848A. Jameson Sacr. & Leg. Art (1850) 101 It was not the manner of those days to exhume..the bodies of holy men. 1862Dana Man. Geol. 643 Bones that have been exhumed by the waves. 1863Lyell Antiq. Man 48 No less than 17 canoes had been..exhumed. 1872Baker Nile Tribut. viii. 112 The wild animals might have exhumed the body.
b. transf. and fig. To unearth, bring to light.
1819Scott Let. 3 Oct. in Lockhart, I..go a day sooner to exhume certain old monuments of the Rutherfords at Jedburgh. 1865Lecky Ration. I. i. 104 The industry of modern antiquarians has exhumed two or three obscure works. 1866Motley Dutch Rep. iii. iii. 403 The letters of the royal assassin..were exhumed.
2. To remove the overlying soil from. rare.
1872Nicholson Palæont. 31 When we exhume an old land-surface the remains of Mammals may be found in tolerable plenty.
Hence exˈhumed ppl. a. (in quots. fig.).
1840Gladstone Ch. Princ. 19 They will give to those, as it were, exhumed verities a degree of weight and prominence. 1878H. M. Stanley Dark Cont. II. xii. 356 The aborigines of these new and exhumed regions. |