Definition of Emboweling

1. embowel [v] - See also: embowel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Emboweling

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

Literary usage of Emboweling

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

1. Letters Written in the Interior of Cuba: Between the Mountains of Arcana, to by Abiel Abbot (1829)
"After suffering agony, for a little time, and witnessing the imminent peril of human life, and the emboweling of a noble horse by the horn of the enraged ..."

2. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"... always inflicted the penalty of death in a mild form, and never butchered their victims by quartering and emboweling, as was done under the monarchy. ..."

3. Herodotus by Herodotus (1840)
"The Jews embalmed their dead, but instead of emboweling, were contented with an external unction. ..."

4. The Old Book Collector's Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Readable Reprints by Charles Hindley (1871)
"... were commanded to his emboweling, to see if in their mature wisdoms, they could find by the symptoms of what disease he died, every man spent his ..."

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