| Front | decorticate /dee-KOR-ti-kayt/ |
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| Back | verb tr. To remove the outer layer, such as the bark, husk, rind, etc. [From Latin decorticare (to peel), from de- (from) + cortex (bark). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sker- (to cut), which is also the source of skirt, curt, screw, shard, shears, carnage, carnivorous, carnation, sharp, scrape, and excoriate. Earliest documented use: 1611.] "The idea, the sensation, the moment of intuition are decorticated and communicated with intimacy and lucidity." Marguerite Dorian; Demon in Brackets; World Literature Today; Jun 1995. |
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