desecating

Verb

desecate (third-person singular simple present desecates, present participle desecating, simple past and past participle desecated)

1. (obsolete, rare) 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.1798, Edmund Burke, The Beauties of the Late Right Hon. Edmund Burke, volume 2