The corpus record — Latin

excarnifico

to cut

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Where it lives

Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
De Clementia 1 · 1.2/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

ex-carnĭfĭco — Lewis & Short

ex-carnĭfĭco, no

I perf., ātum, 1, v. a., to cut or tear any one to pieces (a rare word).

I Lit.: aliquem, Cic. N. D. 3, 33 fin.; Suet. Vit. 17; Sen. Ep. 24.—

II Trop., to torment, torture: aliquem, Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 9: excarnificatus animus, Sen. de Ira, 3, 4: comitem, Amm. 14, 5, 1; 14, 9, 6.

Where it came from

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