v. Also 6 pa. pple. exhumate. [f. med.L. exhumāt- ppl. stem of exhumā-re to EXHUME.] = EXHUME v. lit. and fig.
1548. Hall, Chron. (1809), 796. The Kyng hearyng his subject to be exhumate and brent without his knowledge.
1619. ‘R. Jones’ [Lushington], in Phenix (1708), II. 480. The Women gave the Watch-word to the Disciples, who immediately do exhumate his Body.
1715. M. Davies, Athen. Brit., I. 175. His [Wiclif’s] Body was Exhumated and Burnt. Ibid., I. 272. The present Sermon-maker would needs exhumate poor Fryar John.
1846. Worcester cites Dr. Hitchcock.
1881. Gd. Words, XXII. 45/1. The writer whose hands are cramped with the pen will draw his legs from under the desk, and … exhumating his knapsack, dry with a winter’s dust, [will] make straight for the mountain.
