Desecate

Quick meaning: Desecate is a verb meaning Obsolete spelling of desiccate.

Meaning

Obsolete spelling of desiccate.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete, rare) To cut, as with a scythe; to mow.

Example Sentences

So far as it has gone, it probably is the most pure and desecated public good which has ever been conferred on mankind.

[…] and which new element will, by a sort of elective attraction, secrete and desecate from ore and alloy, all the truth that either has.

Now, as we have already remarked, it is the province of the eclectic philosophy to search out the central truth of each system and desecate it from the mass of commingled truth and error.

Dry, searching, desecating, and cutting, this assassin breath of death pierces through flesh and bone to the marrow; hence the careful way in which the natives cover their months, the women with handkerchiefs, the men by muming themselves up in their cloaks, embozandos en las capas.

Word Forms

• desecates
• desecating
• desecated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include scythe, desecrate, discide, scise, shred, detrench.

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