nonce-wd. [f. EX- pref.1 + L. forcip-em forceps + -ATE3.] trans. To extract with a forceps. In quot. fig.
1838. Coleridge, Lit. Rem., III. 383. Wrapped up in the womb of this or that text of Scripture to be exforcipated by the logico-obstetric skill of High Church doctors.
