Definition of Embowelling

1. embowel [v] - See also: embowel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embowelling

embottles
embottling
embouchement
embouchure
embouchures
embound
embounded
embounds
embow
embowed
embowel
emboweled
emboweling
embowelled
embowelling (current term)
embowelment
embowelments
embowels
embower
embowered
embowering
embowers
embowing
embowl
embowled
embowling
embowls
embows
embox

Literary usage of Embowelling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History and Principles of the Law of Evidence as Illustrating Our Social by John George Phillimore (1850)
"... imprison, mutilate, and destroy; the same people whom neither the embowelling of Armstrong, nor the stake of Mrs. Gaunt, nor the assizes at Taunton, ..."

2. Select Reviews of Literature, and Spirit of Foreign Magazines edited by Enos Bronson (1810)
"... for after decapitation, skinning, and embowelling, the separated portions of the body will still exhibit strong movement. This is a 'property seemingly ..."

3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1868)
"The custom of embowelling was so common formerly that it may appear unnecessary to give instances, and the query of your correspondent WJ 0. is not so much ..."

4. New Commentaries on the Criminal Law Upon a New System of Legal Exposition by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1892)
"As already stated, this rival died with the embowelling. ... did the result of a comparison of Wharton's book embowelling were washed after the rival in its ..."

5. The Edinburgh Annual Register by Sir Walter Scott, Walter Scott (1815)
"Mr Justice Blackstone had said, that the practice of embowelling had been discontinued^ but it was well worthy of consideration whether so shocking and ..."

6. The Legal Observer, Or, Journal of Jurisprudence (1833)
"... but the executioner had the humanity to dispatch him before the embowelling. The punishment of women was. to be drawn to the place of execution, ..."

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