depiece
English
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[edit]depiece (third-person singular simple present depieces, present participle depiecing, simple past and past participle depieced)
- (rare) To remove pieces from; to take apart, disassemble.
- 1920, Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Lotus Press, published 2000, page 180:
- Mind, being an action of the Infinite, depieces as well as aggregates ad infinitum.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 231:
- An ornate set of symbolically retaliatory tortures [...] proceeded with quasi-liturgical exactitude, climaxing in the efforts of four champing horses to pull Damiens's limbs out from his body (in a gruesome twist, his body stubbornly refused to be depieced, and had to be further chopped and battered by public executioner Sanson).