desecate

Etymology

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).

verb

  1. To cut, as with a scythe; to mow.“So far as it has gone, it probably is the most pure and desecated public good which has ever been conferred on mankind.”