Meaning of excarnation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of removing flesh.
   countable, uncountable
2. The burial practice of removing (or causing to be removed) the flesh and organs of the dead, leaving only the bones, especially the practice of laying out corpses for vultures to strip bare.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“Vultures seem to have been used for a funeral practice of excarnation: after the flesh had been cleaned from the bones, the bones were interred in the shrines.”

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