decollatedadj.

Etymology: < decollate v.¹ + -ed suffix¹.

1. Severed at the neck; beheaded, decapitated.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [adjective] > beheaded

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1661 J. Ogilby Relation His Majestie's Entertainm. 3 A Trophy with decollated Heads.

1759 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful (ed. 2) Introd. 23 A fine piece of a decollated head of St. John the Baptist was shewn to a Turkish emperor.

a1845 R. H. Barham Jerry Jarvis's Wig in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 321 Speaking of the decollated martyr, St. Dennis's walk with his head under his arm.

2. Conchology. Of a spiral shell: Truncated at the apex.This occurs normally in some univalve molluscs; in the course of growth, the animal ceases to occupy the apex, and throws a partition across, when the dead part breaks off.

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1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. II. §909 A shell thus deprived of its apex is said to be decollated.

1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 45 The deserted apex is sometimes very thin, and becoming dead and brittle, it breaks away, leaving the shell truncated, or decollated.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

单词	decollated
释义	decollatedadj. Etymology: < decollate v.¹ + -ed suffix¹. 1. Severed at the neck; beheaded, decapitated. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [adjective] > beheaded decollated1661 1661 J. Ogilby Relation His Majestie's Entertainm. 3 A Trophy with decollated Heads. 1759 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful (ed. 2) Introd. 23 A fine piece of a decollated head of St. John the Baptist was shewn to a Turkish emperor. a1845 R. H. Barham Jerry Jarvis's Wig in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 321 Speaking of the decollated martyr, St. Dennis's walk with his head under his arm. 2. Conchology. Of a spiral shell: Truncated at the apex.This occurs normally in some univalve molluscs; in the course of growth, the animal ceases to occupy the apex, and throws a partition across, when the dead part breaks off. ΚΠ 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. II. §909 A shell thus deprived of its apex is said to be decollated. 1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 45 The deserted apex is sometimes very thin, and becoming dead and brittle, it breaks away, leaving the shell truncated, or decollated. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.1661
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