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Definition of Excoriating
1. excoriate [v] - See also: excoriate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excoriating
Literary usage of Excoriating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Homœopathic Therapeutics by Samuel Lilienthal (1890)
"Complication with tuberculosis; cold feeling or coldness of ears; inner and outer
ear swollen, red, sore, itching, hot; excoriating discharge from ears ..."
2. Recollections of the Public Career and Private Life of the Late John by Emily Henderson (1871)
"... his reasoning forcible, and his sarcasm fierce and excoriating, but he was a
confirmed drunkard, and extremely negligent of business. "PARSON THOMAS. ..."
3. Johnson's Therapeutic Key by Isaac D. Johnson (1920)
"SULPHUR. The child frequently awakens from sleep with screams. Great voracity,
wants to put everything in mouth. 'Diarrhoea, excoriating anus, [Ars. Cham. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Domestic Medicine: Giving a Description of Diseases by John Henry Clarke (1901)
"... acrid, excoriating the parts; emaciation, hard, distended abdomen; chronic
diarrhoea. See also CHOLERA. DIET.—The three essential points to observe in ..."
5. A Manual of homoeopathic materia medica by Joseph C. Fahnestock (1901)
"excoriating, watery discharge from nose, making nostrils and upper lip sore.
Mouth and throat filled with viscid phlegm expelled with difficulty. ..."
6. Therapeutics of the Respiratory System, Cough and Coryza, Acute and Chronic by Marvin W. Van Denburg (1915)
"Fluid coryza; acrid, excoriating; front of nose discharging, back dry; worse in
open air; better indoors, washing in cold water, Calc. sul. ..."
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