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Definition of Scarifies
1. scarify [v] - See also: scarify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scarifies
Literary usage of Scarifies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"Now the way in which he thus becomes sympathetic with all the changing moods of
the inconstant heaven is this : he eats the heaven and scarifies himself ..."
2. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from by Samuel Johnson, Henry John Todd, Alexander Chalmers (1824)
"One who scarifies. ... SCA'RIFIER. ns One who scarifies. The instrument with
which scarifications are made. ..."
3. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...by John Walker by John Walker (1810)
"... s. one who scarifies Scarifier, ... s. he who scarifies, the instrument used
in scarifying Schismatical ..."
4. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language: To by John Walker (1806)
"... s« One who scarifies. ... He who scarifies ; the instrument with which
scarifications are made. ..."
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