To demolish.
1832. My wife is a screamer; she can whip her weight in wild cats; dine on tenpenny nails; wash ’em down with aqua fortis; and row about up Niagara Falls with a crowbar for an oar; it’s true, every word on’t; if ’taint, I hope I may be tetotaciously exfluncted.—Troy (N.Y.) Statesman, July 3.
1839. The mongrel armies are prostrate—used up—exfluncticated.—Chemung (N.Y.) Democrat, Nov. 30.
1840. Go it, hog-catchers! Pound ’em, sell ’em, exflunctificate ’em.—Daily Pennant, St. Louis, July 9.
1840. [It has been proclaimed abroad] that the Administration is bodaciously used up, tetotaciously exflunctified.—Mr. Wick of Indiana, House of Repr., July 20: Cong. Globe, p. 545.
