Obs. Also 6 exiccat, 7 exc-, exsiccat, 8 exiccate. [ad. L. exsiccāt- pa. pple. of exsiccāre: see next.] Dried, dried up.
1545. Raynold, Byrth Mankynde, 61. So that the preuy passage be left exiccat and Drye.
1613. T. Godwin, Rom. Antiq. (1625), 53. They [the bowells] were not vlcerous, exsiccate or impostumated.
1663. J. Spencer, Prodigies (1665), 42. The heated and exsiccate Air.
1773. J. Ross, Fratricide (MS.), II. 747. O let me … think The fountains of thy eyes are exiccate.
fig. 1622. J. Abernethy, Chr. Treat. Phys. Soul, vi. 81. So in the spirituall hardnesse, the liquor of grace, of light, and of reason is exciccat.
