embowellingn.

/ɛmˈbaʊɪlɪŋ/

Etymology: < embowel v. + -ing suffix¹.

a. = disembowelling adj. and n. at disembowel v. Derivatives.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > disembowelling as judicial penalty

embowelling1724

1724 J. Swift Let. to People of Ireland 21 Sentence of Death, with..Hanging, Beheading, Quartering, Embowelling.

1813 Sir S. Romilly in Examiner 22 Feb. 117/2 The..infliction of embowelling was at present left to the discretion of the executioner.

†b. nonce-use.

ΚΠ

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. iv. 91 These exenterations, embowellings, and disgorgings, made Sancho's appetite like a swine.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

单词	embowelling
释义	embowellingn. /ɛmˈbaʊɪlɪŋ/ Etymology: < embowel v. + -ing suffix¹. a. = disembowelling adj. and n. at disembowel v. Derivatives. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > disembowelling as judicial penalty embowelling1724 1724 J. Swift Let. to People of Ireland 21 Sentence of Death, with..Hanging, Beheading, Quartering, Embowelling. 1813 Sir S. Romilly in Examiner 22 Feb. 117/2 The..infliction of embowelling was at present left to the discretion of the executioner. †b. nonce-use. ΚΠ 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. iv. 91 These exenterations, embowellings, and disgorgings, made Sancho's appetite like a swine. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1654
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