different between macerate vs excoriate

English

Etymology

From Latin m?cer?tus, perfect passive participle of m?cer?, from Proto-Indo-European *mag-, *mak- (“to knead”) , whence make.

Pronunciation

Verb

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?mæs.?.?e?t/

Noun

• (US) IPA^(key): /?mæs.?.??t/

Verb

macerate (third-person singular simple present macerates, present participle macerating, simple past and past participle macerated)

1. To soften (something) or separate it into pieces by soaking it in a heated or unheated liquid.
2. (archaic) To make lean; to cause to waste away.
   • 2006, David Tibet; Michael Cashmore (lyrics and music), “The Dissolution Of The Boat ‘Millions Of Years’”, in Black Ships Ate the Sky, performed by Current 93:

     Baal scuttles with ten tails
     Between as many legs as he could carry—
     Perhaps Thomas poking through the holes
     And finding resolution beyond the scales
     And incorporeal pain of the hammered Messiah,
     Immaculately macerated God.

3. (obsolete) To subdue the appetite by poor or scanty diet; to mortify.
4. (obsolete) To mortify the flesh in general.
   • 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 243-244:

     “My dear child, how are you employed?” I knew the voice of the Superior, and I replied, “My father, I was sleeping.” “And I was macerating myself at the foot of the altar for you, my child,—the scourge is red with my blood.” I returned no answer, for I felt the maceration was better merited by the betrayer than the betrayed.

Translations

Noun

macerate (plural macerates)

1. A macerated substance.

References

• macerate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Notes:

Anagrams

• camerate, cream tea, racemate

Italian

Verb

macerate

1. second-person plural present indicative of macerare
2. second-person plural imperative of macerare
3. feminine plural of macerato

Anagrams

• camerate

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ma?.ke?ra?.te/, [mä?k???ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ma.t??e?ra.te/, [m?t???????t??]

Participle

m?cer?te

1. vocative masculine singular of m?cer?tus

English

Etymology

From Late Latin excori?tus, perfect participle of Latin excori? (“take the skin or hide off, flay”), from ex (“off”) + corium (“hide, skin”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?sk??.i?e?t/, /?k?sko??.i?e?t/

Verb

excoriate (third-person singular simple present excoriates, present participle excoriating, simple past and past participle excoriated)

1. (transitive) To wear off the skin of; to chafe or flay.

   Synonyms: abrade, chafe, flay

2. (transitive, figuratively) To strongly denounce or censure.

   Synonyms: condemn, disparage, reprobate, tear a strip off

   • 2004, China Miéville, Iron Council, 2005 Trade paperback ed., ?ISBN. p. 464:

     Madeleina di Farja had described Ori, and Cutter had envisaged an angry, frantic, pugnacious boy eager to fight, excoriating his comrades for supposed quiescence.

   • 2006, Patrick Healy "Spitzer and Clinton Win in N.Y. Primary," New York Times, 13 Sep. (retrieved 7 Oct. 2008):

     Mr. Green, a former city public advocate and candidate for mayor in 2001, ran ads excoriating Mr. Cuomo’s ethics.

Derived terms

• excoriator
• excoriation

Translations

Anagrams

• exoterica

Latin

Verb

excori?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of excori?