desecate

verb

1. To cut, as with a scythe; to mow.

   obsolete, rare

   So far as it has gone, it probably is the most pure and desecated public good which has ever been conferred on mankind.

Where it comes from

First attested in 1623; borrowed from Medieval Latin dēsecātus, a variant of dēsectus, the perfect passive participle of dēsecō (“to cut off”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry desecate (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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