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单词 embowel
释义

embowelv.

/ɛmˈbaʊɪl/
Forms: Also 1500s–1600s embowell, enbowell, imbowel(l.
Etymology: In senses 1, 2 < Old French enboweler (recorded in past participle enbowelé = Old French emboulé , *emboelé ) an alteration (with substitution of the prefix em- for es- ) of Old French esboueler, < es- representing Latin ex- out + bouel bowel n.1 In senses 3, 4 < en- prefix1 + bowel n.1
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.
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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.
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?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.
3.
a. To put, convey into the bowels; in quots. transferred and figurative. Obsolete.
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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.
b. To fill the bowels of (an animal). Obsolete.
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1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 731 The young whelps of weasels being imbowelled with salt.
4. intransitive. To convey food into the bowels. Obsolete.
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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).
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