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Definition of Amputators
1. amputator [n] - See also: amputator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amputators
Literary usage of Amputators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English and American Philosophy Since 1800: A Critical Survey by Arthur Kenyon Rogers (1922)
"To "hurrying enlighteners" and "revolutionary amputators" he presents the rational
claims of the gradual processes of nature, and the "historical spirit. ..."
2. The Peninsular Campaign in Virginia, Or, Incidents and Scenes on the Battle by James Junius Marks (1864)
"Here and there over the grounds were seen through that night a circle of lanterns
waving around the tables of amputators. Every few moments there was a ..."
3. The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery by Daniel Drake, Lundsford Pitts Yandell (1850)
"We would not exchange what we have seen accomplished with the roller, for the
knowledge that we were universally esteemed the first of amputators. ..."
4. The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Prose and Verse by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853)
"... I might have elucidated the preceding condition, and have referred our hurrying
enlighteners and revolutionary amputators to the gentleness of Nature, ..."
5. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1867)
"... behold, our fields and gardens are occupied by an army of amputators, with
instruments in hand, whose sole employment and pleasure is to lay waste and ..."
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