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Definition of Decollate
1. Verb. Cut the head of. "They want to decollate the prisoners "; "The French King was beheaded during the Revolution"
Definition of Decollate
1. v. t. To sever from the neck; to behead; to decapitate.
Definition of Decollate
1. Verb. (transitive) To behead. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive computing) To separate the copies of multipart computer printout. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Decollate
1. [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decollate
Literary usage of Decollate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletins of American Paleontology by Cornell University, Paleontological Research Institution (1895)
"Length (nucleus decollate) 27 mm.; width 8 mm. Lower Mare formation. 13-15. ...
Length (apex decollate) 52.5 mm.; width 18.2 mm. Lower Mare formation. ..."
2. Walks in Rome: (including Tivoli, Frascati, and Albano) by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1905)
"Giovanni decollate, decorated with numerous heads of John the Baptist in the
charger, let into the walls over the doors of the houses. ..."
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