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Definition of Disbowelled
1. disbowel [v] - See also: disbowel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disbowelled
Literary usage of Disbowelled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"... 't was mitred Minotaur, A dead disbowelled mystery ; The mummy of a buried
faith Stark from the charnel without scathe, Its wings stood for the light to ..."
2. Original Letters, Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1824)
"The writer says, " The Kings body was about the 29th of March disbowelled, and
his heart was found to be great but soft, his liver freshe as a young man's, ..."
3. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"... in the execution of his ofiice; his body has been disbowelled, and put into
pickle, but not yet known how it will be disposed of. ..."
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