2. Noun. The act by which somebody is disembowelled. ¹
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Definition of Disembowelling
1. disembowel [v] - See also: disembowel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disembowelling
Literary usage of Disembowelling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"The practice of partial hanging and disembowelling (horrible as MR. GREAVES justly
calls it) was unknown in Scotland till the treason law of that country ..."
2. An Italian and English Dictionary with Pronunciation and Brief Etymologies by August Hjalmar Edgren, Giuseppe Bico, John Lawrence Gerig (1901)
"disembowel (gut) ; run through the belly ; INTR. t : eat and drink too much, -trata,
F.: disembowelling; bellyful, -trato, PART. ..."
3. The History of Herodotus: A New English Version, Ed. with Copious Notes and by Herodotus (1862)
"The disembowelling and burning are, however, different in different sacrifices.
I will mention the mode in use with respect to the goddess whom they regard ..."
4. A History of the Venerable English College, Rome: An Account of Its Origins by Francis Aidan Gasquet (1920)
"At length a butcher from a neighbouring village was brought who completed the
ripping up and disembowelling. Father John Cornelius or Mohun was born of ..."
5. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1873)
"The plan I adopted is, 1 think, much superior to the ordinary one of disembowelling
the child, and extracting it double, or tearing it out piecemeal. ..."
6. The Law Magazine, Or, Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence by William S. Hein & Company (1851)
"Now the offence therein described was that of crimen lesee majestatis, which was
then the terrible one of drawing to the scaffold, of disembowelling while ..."
7. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1873)
"The plan I adopted is, I think, much superior to the ordinary one of disembowelling
the child, and extracting it double, or tearing it out piecemeal. ..."
8. We; a Confession of Faith for the American People During and After the War by Gerald Stanley Lee (1916)
"... join in and help convincing people by disembowelling them on one side, instead
of joining in convincing them by disembowelling them on the other? ..."
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