pos>v. t. [ L. excoctus, p. p. of excoquere to excoct. See 3d Cook. ] To boil out; to produce by boiling. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ L. excoctio. ] The act of excocting or boiling out. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Excogitated p. pr. & vb. n.. Excogitating. ] [ L. excogitatus, p. p. of excogitare to excogitate; ex out + cogitare to think. See Cogitate. ] To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive. “Excogitate strange arts.” Stirling. [ 1913 Webster ]

This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general theory. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To cogitate. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. excogitatio: cf. F. excogitation. ] The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>v. t. [ Cf. F. excommuier. See Excommunicate. ] To exclude from participation in; to excommunicate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Poets . . . were excommuned Plato's common wealth Gayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Excommunicate. ] Liable or deserving to be excommunicated; making excommunication possible or proper. “Persons excommunicable .” Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

What offenses are excommunicable ? Kenle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who has been excommunicated. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. excommunicatus, p. p. of communicare to excommunicate; ex out + communicare. See Communicate. ] Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church. -- n. One excommunicated. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Excommunicated p. pr. & vb. n. Excommunicating ] 1. To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict. [ 1913 Webster ]

Martin the Fifth . . . was the first that excommunicated the reading of heretical books. Miltin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. excommunicatio: cf. F. excommunication. ] The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ excommunication is of two kinds, the lesser and the greater; the lesser excommunication is a separation or suspension from partaking of the Eucharist; the greater is an absolute execution of the offender from the church and all its rights and advantages, even from social intercourse with the faithful. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ Cf. LL. excommunicator. ] One who excommunicates. [ 1913 Webster ]

A shutting out from communion; excommunication. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Excommunication is the utmost of ecclesiastical judicature. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Capable of being excoriated. [ 1913 Webster ]

The scaly covering of fishes, . . . even in such as are excoriatable. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Excoriated p. pr. & vb. n. excoriating ] [ L. excoriare; ex out + corium hide. cf. Scourge; see Cuirass. ] To strip or wear off the skin of; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle of, in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. excoriation. ] 1. The act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Stripping of possession; spoliation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A pitiful excoriation of the poorer sort. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. ex out, from + cortex, corticis, bark. ] To strip of bark or skin; to decorticate. [ Obs. ] “Excorticate the tree.” Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. excortication. ] The act of stripping off bark, or the state of being thus stripped; decortication. [ 1913 Webster ]