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Webster 1913 Edition

decollate

de-col′late

(dē̍-kŏl′lāt)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Decollated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Decollating
.]
[L.
decollatus
, p. p. of
decollare
to behead;
de-
+
collum
neck.]
To sever from the neck; to behead; to decapitate.
The
decollated
head of St. John the Baptist.
Burke.

Webster 1828 Edition

Decollate

DE'COLLATE

,
Verb.
T.
To behead.

DE'COLLATE

D,
pp.
Beheaded.
DECOLLA'TION, n. [L. to behead; the neck.] The act of beheading; the act of cutting off the neck of an animal, and severing the head from the body. It is especially used of St. John the Baptist, and of a painting which represents his beheading.
DECOLORA'TION, n. Absence of color.
DE'COMPLEX, a. Compounded of complex ideas.
DECOMPO'SABLE, a. That may be decomposed; capable of being resolved into its constituent elements.
DECOMPO'SE, v.t. To separate the constituent parts of a body or substance; to disunite elementary particles combined by affinity or chimical attraction; to resolve into original elements.
DECOMPO'SED, pp. Separated or resolved into the constituent parts.
DECOMPO'SING, ppr. Separating into constituent parts.
DECOMPOS'ITE, a. Compounded a second time; compounded with things already composite.
DECOMPOSI'TION, n.

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