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Definition of Mutilates
1. mutilate [v] - See also: mutilate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mutilates
Literary usage of Mutilates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Filippo Strozzi: A History of the Last Days of the Old Italian Liberty by Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1860)
"mutilates the ancient statues on the Arch of Constantino ;—and is expelled from
Rome.—Becomes the parasite of Alessandro.—The Lady Caterina Ginori. ..."
2. The Principles of Historical Evidence Considered in Their Bearing on the by William Henry Simcox (1868)
"... have been content to play at explaining it. And sometimes they have not played
fair. It is really cheating when Niebuhr mutilates the passage where ..."
3. Penal Law and the Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of New York by New York (State), John T. Fitzpatrick (1918)
"... or makes marks upon, mutilates, carries away, conceals, alters, or destroys
any enrollment blank or enrollment envelope used or deposited by an elector ..."