[as if ad. L. *exenterātiōn-em, n. of action f. exenterāre: see EXENTERATE.]
1. The action or process of exenterating or taking out the entrails.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., III. xxi. 157. Upon exenteration he found these animals in their bellies.
1705. T. Greenhill, Art Embalming, 121. If we can arrive at this Perfection, without Exenteration or Incision.
1823. Moore, Rhymes on Road, Introd. 59. A hero … wrote … ’mid all the pains And horrors of exenteration, Nine charming odes.
1884. Cornh. Mag., July, 69. There is no exenteration, no steeping in palm-wine.
fig. 1808. Lamb, Charac. Dram. Writers, Wks. 531. A faint bodily image of this … exenteration of the inmost mind.
1850. Kingsley, Alt. Locke, xix. There is self-exenteration enough and to spare in my story.
2. The condition of being devoid of entrails.
1831. Fraser’s Mag., IV. 633. A lankness of figure that denoted almost utter exenteration.
