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The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.

One who excommunicates.

To strip of bark or skin; to decorticate. [Obs.] "Excorticate the tree." Evelyn.

The act of stripping off bark, or the state of being thus stripped; decortication.

The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.

See Exsiccate. [Obs.] Holland.

See Exsiccation. [Obs.]

To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out. "To expiscate principles." [R.] Nichol. Dr.Burton has with much ingenuity endeavord to expiscate the truth which may be involved in them. W. L. Alexander.

The act of expiscating; a fishing. [R.] Chapman.

Tending to fish out; searching out [R.] Carlyle.

To unfold; to expand; to lay open. [Obs.] "They explicate the leaves." Blackmore.

t of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation. The explication of our Savior's parables. Atterbury.

Serving to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding; explanatory. Sir W. Hamilton.

One who unfolds or explains; an expounder; an explainer.

Explicative. Barrow.

To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up. Sir T. Browne.

The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture; state of being dried up; dryness. Sir T. Browne.

Tending to make dry; having the power of drying.

An apparatus for drying substances or preserving them from moisture; a desiccator; also, less frequently, an agent employed to absorb moisture, as calcium chloride, or concentrated sulphuric acid.

Empty; frivolous. [A Shakespearean word only once used.] Such exsufflicate and blown surmises. Shak. (Oth. iii. 3, 182).