Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In surgery, the act of scarifying; the operation of making several superficial incisions in a part, as for the purpose of taking away blood or serum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of scarifying.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the act of
scarifying - ofraking theground harshly to removeweeds etc - noun a
medieval form ofpenance in which theskin was damaged with aknife or hot iron
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Examples
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One man’s scarification is the picking of scabs to another.
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There is a lot of imagery on it, embellishment that is taken from scarification, which is something that is quite big in the continent.
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There is a lot of imagery on it, embellishment that is taken from scarification, which is something that is quite big in the continent.
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There is a lot of imagery on it, embellishment that is taken from scarification, which is something that is quite big in the continent.
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` Most Eastern treatises divide aphrodisiacs into two different kinds; 1. the mechanical or natural, such as scarification, flagellation, etc; and 2. the medicinal or artificial.
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When he considered interference necessary, however, he did not hesitate even to apply drastic measures, such as scarification, cupping and bleeding.
Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine James Sands Elliott
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The second is the mechanical, such as scarification 'flagellation, and the application of insects as practiced by certain savage races.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Cicatrisation, more commonly known as "scarification" has had a multitude of meanings to many people throughout our human animal history.
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"scarification" under pain of impalement, but it was resumed the moment he left Al-Asir.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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ADLER: She's always been fascinated by tribal rituals of teeth filing and scarification.
bilby commented on the word scarification
"The endurance of pain, especially in poor communities where pain and discomfort are daily realities, is another important aspect of beautification/mutilation. Scarification is valued not only because it is symmetrically placed about the body and not only because it implies the achievement of new status, but because it hurts. Where survival is only achieved by constant effort, stoicism and willpower are immensely important. The young woman who lies unflinching while the circumciser grinds her clitoris between two stones is proving that she will make a good wife, equal to all the anguish of child-bearing and daily toil, not only to the witnesses of her bravery, more importantly, to herself."
- 'One man's mutilation is another man's beautification', Germaine Greer in The Madwoman's Underclothes.
September 1, 2008