An awful dream of Aristides that all his bones and sinews must be Excised, turned, in the hands of a faithful attendant, into a prediction of renewed vitality.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
The curate and the exciseman in the ninth chapter are, by common consent, among Smollett's greatest triumphs; but the curate might be excommunicated and the exciseman Excised without anybody who read the book perceiving the slightest gap or missing link, as far as the story is concerned.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
For when the parathyroids have been completely and aseptically Excised, without injuring any other organ, immediately the body begins to lose lime.
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.