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In article <v599nd$cbov$1@dont-email.me>, evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com
(Evelyn C. Leeper) wrote:

> I have no idea where Irby found the word "dilacerated".

From a dictionary?  It's in the latest edition of Chambers: dilacerate
/di-las'?r-at/ transitive verb To rend or tear asunder
ORIGIN: L di- asunder, and lacerate

Though saying it's in Chambers doesn't mean it's a common word found in
the general vocabulary.  Chambers is the recommended dictionary for the
Azed crossword in The Observer, a Sunday paper.  The answers to last
week's puzzle have just been published.  Included were: CUSK, another
name for the torsk; STROOKE, an archaic form of strike; and HOGH,
Spenser's spelling of hoe, a promontory.