[n. of action f. prec.: see -ATION.]

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  1.  (See quot.)

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1847.  Craig, Excarnation, in Anatomy, a method by which the blood-vessels are isolated after injection from the parts among which they are inserted. The agents are putrefaction or immersion in an acid.

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1884.  in Syd. Soc. Lex.

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  2.  a. Separation (of the soul) from the body at death. b. Emergence from corporeal form and conditions: opposed to incarnation.

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1858.  Sears, Athan., II. xi. 240. His [Christ’s] resurrection is none other than his excarnation, or his emergence out of all natural conditions. Ibid., xii. 251. That excarnation of man which … makes him eternally the denizen of a spiritual world.

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