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embowelled, ppl. a.|ɛmˈbaʊɪld|
[f. prec.]
1. = disembowelled. lit. and fig.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, v. ii. 10 The Boare makes his trough In your embowel'd bosomes. 1695Blackmore Pr. Arth. i. 261 Exploded Thunder tears th' Embowel'd Sky. 1789Wolcott (P. Pindar) Subj. Painters 10 Sweeter than hist'ry of embowell'd saint.
2. fig. That lies hid in the bowels or heart of a thing; internal, intestine.
1609Bp. Barlow Answ. Nameless Catholike 236 Hauing such Embowelled enemies within his Realmes. c1750Shenstone Elegy xx. 62 For them we drain the mine's embowell'd gold. 1854S. Dobell Balder xxiv. 169 Like an embowelled earthquake yet unbelched.
†3. That has the bowels full. Obs.
1486Bk. St. Albans A vij, If..the bowell [be] any thyng stiffid . ye shall say she is embowellid. |