Word Meanings - EXCARNATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; -- opposed to incarnation.

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• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• DIVESTITURE
  The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
• EXCARNIFICATION
  The act of excarnificating or of depriving of flesh; excarnation. Johnson.
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• OPPOSABILITY
  The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
• FLESHMENT
  The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning. Shak.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• FLESHHOOD
  The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation. Thou, who hast thyself Endured this fleshhood. Mrs. Browning.
• OPPOSITIVE
  Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• FLESHINESS
  The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness. Milton.
• OPPOSITIFOLIOUS
  Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.
• INCARNATION
  The union of the second person of the Godhead with manhood in Christ. 3. An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or act. She is a new incarnation of some
• FLESHER
  1. A butcher. A flesher on a block had laid his whittle down. Macaulay. 2. A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife.
• DIVESTURE
  Divestiture.
• FLESHLY
  1. Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal. "Fleshly bondage." Denham. 2. Animal; not Dryden. 3. Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine. "Fleshly wisdom." 2 Cor. i. 12. Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm And fragile arms. Milton.
• OPPOSABLE
  1. Capable of being opposed or resisted. 2. Capable of being placed opposite something else; as, the thumb is opposable to the forefinger.
• DIVEST
  See W (more info) devestire. It is the same word as devest, but the latter is rarely 1. To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest. 2. Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess;
• FLESHLESS
  Destitute of flesh; lean. Carlyle.
• OPPOSE
  1. To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit. Her grace sat down . . . In a rich chair of state; opposing freely The beauty of her person to the people. Shak. 2. To put in opposition, with a view to counterbalance
• HORSEFLESH
  1. The flesh of horses. The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day. Bacon. 2. Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. Horseflesh ore , a miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on
• ENFLESH
  To clothe with flesh. Vices which are . . . enfleshed in him. Florio.