2. Noun. The act by which somebody is disemboweled. ¹
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Definition of Disemboweling
1. disembowel [v] - See also: disembowel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disemboweling
Literary usage of Disemboweling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Federal Criminal Law and Procedure by Elijah Nathaniel Zoline (1921)
"The law of England remained unchanged in this particular until 1814 when it was
altered by abolishing the disemboweling and burning, but drawing on a hurdle ..."
2. Penal Philosophy by Gabriel de Tarde, Rapelje Howell (1912)
"... by disemboweling of a little girl; in the United States disen ...
four negroes [Birmingham], disemboweling an mutilation of a colored woman [Milville]; ..."
3. American Revisions and Additions to the Encyclopaedia Britannica by William Harrison De Puy (1891)
"In England, Scotland and Ireland, until within a generation or so, the rack, the
gibbet, decapitation, quartering, disemboweling and burning were practiced. ..."
4. The Gazette pocket speller and definer: English and Medical (1904)
"... removal of a viscus ; disemboweling. exacerba 'ti on. Intensification of symptoms.
evul'sion, forcible separation ; plucking out. ..."
5. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"You have been flaying your correspondent alive with your incorporeal pen; you
have been braining him, disemboweling him, carving him into little bits, ..."
6. German Atrocities, Their Nature and Philosophy: Studies in Belgium and by Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker, Newell Dwight Hillis (1918)
"All kinds of punishment have been tried—hanging, beheading, burning, mutilating,
disemboweling, quartering, gouging out the eyes, cutting out the tongue, ..."
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