excoriation

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

EXCORIA'TION, noun The act of flaying, or the operation of wearing off the skin or cuticle; a galling; abrasion; the state of being galled or stripped of skin. 1. Plunder; the act of stripping of possessions. [Little used.]
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