Definition of Lacerates

1. Verb. (third-person singular of lacerate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lacerates

1. lacerate [v] - See also: lacerate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lacerates

lacelike
lacemaker
lacemakers
lacemaking
laceman
lacemen
lacepod
lacer
lacerable
lacerant
lacerate
lacerated
lacerated foramen
lacerater
laceraters
lacerates
lacerating
laceratingly
laceration
lacerations
lacerative
laceries
lacers
lacert
lacerta
lacertian
lacertid
lacertid lizard
lacertids
lacertilia

Literary usage of Lacerates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Australian Aborigines: The Languages and Customs of Several Tribes of by James Dawson (1881)
"Every second night he wails and recounts her good qualities, and lacerates his forehead with his nails till the blood flows down his cheeks, and he covers ..."

2. The library by Apollodorus (1921)
"45). lacerates also discredited the tradition, in so far as it relates to ... See lacerates, Busiris, 15. Yet there are grounds for thinking that the Greek ..."

3. Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory: Or, Education of an Orator by Quintilian (1892)
"836 F., and Suidas under lacerates. Spalding. J. See Aul. ... Diogenes Laertius (v. 3) says that the verse was applied, not to lacerates, but to Xenocrates. ..."

4. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1864)
"It is therefore imperatively necessary to watch with care any dog 'who obstinately lacerates hearth-rugs and cushions, who gnaws the wooden frame-work of ..."

5. The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany (1826)
"The loss of independence, as it lacerates Self-esteem and Love of Approbation, will be felt, and exactly according to the degree in which they are possessed ..."

6. Private lectures on perfect men, women and children, in happy families by Orson Squire Fowler (1883)
"lacerates and ulcerates the vagina and womb thus :—His passion enlarges his penis ten-fold, and hardens,**0 and should her vagina, which her passivity ..."

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