Desecate

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Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete, rare) To cut, as with a scythe; to mow.
2. Obsolete spelling of desiccate.

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.

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.

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

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.

It is well known that the high temperature of sandy deserts, neven produces fever; that the fiery blast of the Harmattan which desecates the fluids, and withers the whole aspect of nature, puts an immediate end to fever, and that on the coast of Africa, after the rainy seasons, they welcome this blast, as with it the recovery of invalids commences.

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• desecates
• desecating
• desecated

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