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- in compoundsnot comparableoftenHaving an orifice.
Borderlessness is a contrived crisis since, for regeneration to take place requires an orificed, profligate, grotesque body.
1999, Carolyn Marvin, David W. Ingle, “Fresh blood, public meat”, in Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 2563 more examples
Thirdly the fiſtula it ſelfe is to be dealt withal: and firſt if it be ſtraite and narrow orificed, it muſt be enlarged, with a tent of gentian, or the trochiſes de minio, or ex radice brioniæ. or dracunculi[,] or a ſponge thus prepared: […]
1585, [Johannes Jacob] Wecker, translated by Ihon Banester, “Of a Fistula”, in A Compendious Chyrurgerie: Gathered, & Translated (Especially) out of Wecker, at the Request of Certaine, but Encreased and Enlightened […], London: […] Iohn Windet, for Iohn Harrison the elder, →OCLC, page 500[Kenneth] Price developed an orificed pod-like form with several fingers either enclosed or thrusting out, but saturated with a dramatic range of the most intense and expressive color, either glazed or painted with coat after coat of automobile lacquers.
1963 December, John Coplans, “Out of clay: West Coast ceramic sculpture emerges as a strong regional trend”, in Art in America, volume 51, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Art in America Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40, column 2Seed splitter, I knived up through blackness to empty the day from my head – see how it scatters, a million zygote angels seeding the furrows to become these cabbages, lace-bonnet babies with skull-breaking brains, their urchin-orificed heads of flame burn like swamp gas.
2002, DeSales Harrison, “Scarecrow in Cabbage Patch”, in James Naiden, editor, The North Stone Review, number 14, Minneapolis, Minn., →ISBN, →ISSN, page 65
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