excoriate

Etymology

First attested in the early 15th century in Middle English, it was inherited from Middle English *excoriaten (only found in its past participle), which was borrowed from Late Latin excoriātus, the perfect passive participle of excoriō (“to take the skin or hide off, flay, skin”), from ex- (“out off, from”), corium (“hide, skin”) and -ō. The adjective was used participially as a rule up until Early Modern English, and later became archaic.