Definition of Embowelled

1. embowel [v] - See also: embowel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embowelled

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

Literary usage of Embowelled

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

1. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1823)
"Ballard was first executed, and snatched alive from the gallows to be embowelled: Babington looked on 1642; and this narrative is taken from the curious and ..."

2. Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History: Comprising the History of England by Matthew Paris, Roger (1849)
"... himself was first embowelled, then pierced with lances and knives, and finally stoned to death: for which cause, also, none of his bones were found ..."

3. Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History: Comprising the History of England by Roger, Matthew Paris (1849)
"... himself was first embowelled, then pierced with lances and knives, and finally stoned to death: for which cause, also, none of his bones were found ..."

4. English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) by John Matthews Manly (1916)
"... conies the o our heart, and is that wherein (.he west, emptied and embowelled (may God avert the omen of our crimes !) by so accomplished a desolation. ..."

5. The History and Principles of the Law of Evidence as Illustrating Our Social by John George Phillimore (1850)
"... on this ground, twelve years after the man had been embowelled, the attainder was actually reversed, and the sentence declared erroneous, A. r>. 1696. ..."

6. Memorials of Those who Suffered for the Catholic Faith in Ireland in the by Myles William Patrick O'Reilly (1869)
"... having hung a short time, they were cut down, embowelled, their entrails burnt, their bodies cut in four parts and exposed in public places. ..."

7. Lives of the Irish Martyrs and Confessors by Myles William Patrick O'Reilly, Richard Brennan, Henry Parnell (1880)
"The next day, having hung a short time, they were cut down, embowelled, their entrails burnt, their bodies cut in four parts and exposed in public places. ..."

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