单词 | embowel |
释义 | embowelv. I. Senses relating to evisceration. 1. transitive. To remove the (abdominal) viscera from (a body), either for the purpose of embalming, or as part of a judicial penalty; = disembowel v. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (transitive)] > disembowel bowel1330 drawc1330 embowel1521 the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > prepare corpse [verb (transitive)] > embalm > remove viscera before embowel1521 1521 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 141 Item I will that aftir my deth my body be emboweld. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. iv. 108 Inboweld will I see thee by and by. 1640 H. Slingsby Diary (1836) 64 Wch made me..send for a chirurgeon from York to embowel him. 1734 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (1827) III. vi. §3. 124 Having prepared their bodies for the purpose by embowelling them. 1854 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 21 488 He is the diviner who must embowel the beasts of sacrifice. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. vi. 490 Others he put in prison, others he embowelled. 2. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ ?1589 T. Nashe Almond for Parrat sig. 20 I haue not halfe emboweld my register. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. iii. 239 The Schooles Embowel'd of their doctrine. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 587 Whose roar Emboweld with outragious noise the Air, And all her entrails tore. View more context for this quotation 1678 Lively Orac. viii. §26. 315 How curiously do men..embowel a text to find a pretence for cavil and objection. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 128 In England we have not yet been completely embowelled of our natural entrails. View more context for this quotation II. Senses relating to conveying to the bowels. a. To put, convey into the bowels; in quots. transferred and figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > into the inside of embowel1596 burrow1915 1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. C8v On Vlysses Circe did bestowe A blather, where the windes imboweld were. 1629 J. Donne Serm. (1958) IX. 99 All was embowelled, and enwombed in the waters. 1633 W. Struther True Happines 8 When God and man inhere mutually in other, and are enbowelled by mutuall love. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 26 His bodie was..imbowelled in a spacious Coffin, the Ocean. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 105 A streame..arising from Mount Taurus, here embowels it selfe into that Sea. ΚΠ 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 731 The young whelps of weasels being imbowelled with salt. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [verb (intransitive)] > actions of hawk, etc. mutea1475 mutessa1475 to put overa1475 feat1508 to check at the fista1529 feakc1575 souse1589 to clip it1616 embowel1618 unenterpen1647 gather1674 enterpen1736 scatter1771 1618 S. Latham New & 2nd Bk. Falconrie viii. 18 It will oftentimes very much molest her in her putting ouer and imbowelling. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < v.1521 |
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