dismemberedadj.
1. Deprived of members or limbs; divided limb from limb; cut or broken in pieces; mangled, mutilated.
a. literal.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [adjective]
maimed1340
remuled1481
mutilate1525
dismembered1552
trunked1552
martyred1567
bodiless1587
limbless1594
mutilated1598
memberless1611
maim1653
concised1660
dislimbed1662
truncated1731
obtruncate1805
lop-limbed1809
decurtate1859
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Dismembred or lackynge some lymmes.
1631 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. (ed. 2) (2nd state) §cxxxix We have seene Mountebanks to swallow dismembered toades.
1752 S. Foote Taste ii. 25 Let me embrace the dear dismember'd Bust!
1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. viii. 107 Old vases and dismembered idols.
b. transferred and figurative. (In quot. 1578 of leaves: Divided, cut.)
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > [adjective] > divided
departedc1386
parteda1398
distinct1434
divided1565
partite1570
shedded1575
dismembered1578
severed1581
splitted1594
shared1598
distract1609
disparted1633
split1648
dipartited1825
splitten1832
dipartite1885
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. xlviii. 612 The leaves be almost lyke the leaves of Coriander, but dismembered and parted into smaller jagges or frengis.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 85 This dismembred empire, now in the hands of many.
1862 S. Lucas Secularia 5 Dubious fragments of a dismembered truth.
c. Heraldry. Of a charge representing an animal: Depicted without limbs or members; or, with the members separate from the body as if just cut off.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [adjective] > dismembered or torn off
rasedc1460
dismembered1572
erased1572
déhaché1766
1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 42 Howe many and sundrie wayes they [Lions] are borne in armes, as..Couped, Dismembred, Vulned.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Dismember'd, in Heraldry, is applied to Birds that have neither Feet, nor Legs: As also to Lions, and other Animals, whose Members are separated.
1869 J. E. Cussans Handbk. Heraldry (rev. ed.) vi. 84 A Lion rampant dismembered is borne by the Maitland Family.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [adjective] > of a limb: severed
dismembered1579
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 937 When these poore dismembred members were brought to Rome, Antonius..commaunded his head and his hands should..be set vp ouer the pullpit.
1667 R. Boyle Origine Formes & Qualities (ed. 2) 321 The dismembred part of the Plant may retain the texture of its more stable parts.
1819 W. Irving Rip Van Winkle in Sketch Bk. i. 59 They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family.
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