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Definition of Disembowelled
1. disembowel [v] - See also: disembowel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disembowelled
Literary usage of Disembowelled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In spite of his sentence, he was neither disembowelled nor quartered, but was
buried under the gallows. Cr.MM. ..."
2. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers (1835)
"To increase the horrors of his situation, his son was disembowelled alive before
his face. James I. perished in the forty-fourth year of his age, ..."
3. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1854)
"To increase the horrors of his situation, his son was disembowelled alive before
his face. James I. perished in the forty-fourth year of hia age, ..."
4. The Journals of Washington Irving (Hitherto Unpublished) by Washington Irving (1919)
"Soon come to the doe lying on hillside disembowelled and leave the footmen to
cut it up and carry it to camp. Come upon elk trail — deep prints like a cow ..."
5. The Fortnightly Review (1882)
"It is just two hundred years since a sentence was quashed, because the wretched
culprit had not been sentenced to be disembowelled and so forth ..."
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