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estropiated, a. rare.|ɪˈstrɒpɪeɪtɪd, ɛ-|
[f. F. estropier to cripple, disfigure, f. It. stroppiare, alt. of storpiare, f. L. turpis ugly or stuprāre to defile, ravish: see -ate3, -ed1.]
Crippled; disfigured.
1917A. Huxley Let. May (1969) 125 All..were..hospital cases..estropiated dwarfs, goitrous cretins. 1956E. & W. Young Old London Churches 19 The twelfth century wave of monasticism left most splendid wrack on the London scene: the great estropiated hulk of St Bartholomew, the buried crypt at St John Clerkenwell, the form of the much-renewed Temple Church. |