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decollate

decollate \de*col"late\ (d[-e]*k[o^]l"l[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Decollated; p. pr. & vb. n. Decollating.] [L. decollatus, p. p. of decollare to behead; de- + collum neck.] To sever from the neck; to behead; to decapitate.

The decollated head of St. John the Baptist.
--Burke.

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decollate

Etymology 1 vb. (context transitive English) To behead. Etymology 2

vb. (context transitive computing English) To separate the copies of multipart computer printout.

Usage examples of "decollate".

Heavy as an ivied tower, it crashed the blackness, decollated, to the sound of brass, like something in son et lumière.