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Its sharp, strong, single spade-shaped end scarifies efficiently with less resistance than a wide hoe or a multi-tined tool.

Seasonal gardening gifts: Where innovation meets practicality Joel M. Lerner 2010

What is emerging today as modern African leaders are the kind of leaders who have no ability to make hard decisions and make necessary scarifies for our future.

How History Is going to Judge Us in Africa 2009

“Hajjám” = a cupper who scarifies forehead and legs, a bleeder, a (blood -) sucker.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Hence the naked savage of New South Wales pierces the septum of his nose, through which he runs a stick or a bone, and scarifies his body, the charms of which increase in proportion to the number and magnitude of seams by which it is distinguished.

The Settlement at Port Jackson 2003

When bitten, the sufferer tightens these cords above the injured part, which he immediately scarifies; thus they act as tourniquets.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

According to Professor G.M. Trevelyan (England Under Queen Anne), part of the reason for Swift’s failure to get preferment was that the Queen was scandalized by the Tale of a Tuba pamphlet in which Swift probably felt that he had done a great service to the English Crown, since it scarifies the Dissenters and still more the Catholics while leaving the Established Church alone.

Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels 1946

He never bludgeons or scalps or scarifies; but serenely indicates, with the calm gesture of a superior authority, the defects and blots which mar perfection, but which the unthinking multitude ignores, or, at worst, admires.

Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904

Wanderer comes in and scarifies Mime out of his wits, we are taken back to the remotest and dimmest past, to the beginnings of time, to a time that never existed save in the imagination of our forebears.

Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians John F. Runciman 1891

He never bludgeons or scalps or scarifies; but serenely indicates, with the calm gesture of a superior authority, the defects and blots which mar perfection, but which the unthinking multitude ignores, or, at worst, admires.

Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell 1886

Then the evil spirit must be driven out, and the medicine-man stretches his patient on the ground and scarifies him with the claws of eagles from head to heel, and while performing the scarification a group of men and women stand about, forming a chorus, and medicine-man and chorus perform a fugue in gloomy ululation, for these wicked spirits will depart only by incantations and scarifications.

Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56 John Wesley Powell 1868