excarnificare

excarnificare [CL] , to torture. b to mangle, dismember. [Piso] comprehensus a militibus Vespasiani redeuntibus a Syria ~atur et unco pertractus in Tiberi necatur R. Niger Chr. II 113.  b exanimatorum cadavera Turci uncis ferreis in murum trahebant, ludibrio nostrorum ~anda W. Malm. GR IV 357.