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- noun Plural form of
scarification .
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Examples
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I also branched out into other more "extreme" forms of modification, such as a 4 1/2-hour flesh removal on my right calf, numerous ritual cuttings and scarifications, countless flesh pulls and numerous suspensions.
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It's a group of people who experience their spirituality through modifying their bodies -- piercings, tattoos, scarifications and beyond.
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In all such cases the parts are to be bathed with vinegar, after which they are not to be wetted; neither must the person lie upon the scarifications, but they are to be anointed with some of the medicines for bloody wounds.
On Ulcers 2007
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But blood is to be abstracted, especially the from the veins, which are the seat of the influx, if they be conspicuous; but if not, deeper and more numerous scarifications are to be made in the swellings; and whatever part you scarify, this is to be done with the sharpest and most slender instruments of iron.
On Ulcers 2007
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If upon loosing the bandages you find the scarifications inflamed, apply a cataplasm of the fruit of the chaste-tree and linseed.
On Ulcers 2007
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But if the scarifications become ulcerated and break into one another, we must be regulated by circumstances, and otherwise apply whatever else appears to be proper.
On Ulcers 2007
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That these scarifications are intended solely to increase personal allurement I will not, however, positively affirm.
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Several contained drawings, mostly nature studies; but there were a few at variance with the rest, all renderings of a grotesque male face, extremely narrow and long, with a flattened nose similar to a baboon's and striations on the cheeks like ritual scarifications.
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The hollowness of the back, and symmetrical balance of the upper part of the torso, ornamented as it was, like a piece of fine carving, with raised scarifications most tastefully placed; such were some of the characteristics of this perfect “piece of work.”
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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Only the clan scarifications on both heels remained visible, to mark him and his footprints as of the Kwanyi.
Conan and The Gods of The Mountain Green, Roland 1993
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