memberlessadj.
/ˈmɛmbələs/, U.S. /ˈmɛmbərləs/ Having no member or members (in various senses).
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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
the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > of genitalia
memberless1611
monorchid1822
hypospadiac1836
cryptorchid1860
hypospadial1874
eunuchoid1894
eunuchoidal1915
the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > [adjective] > castrated
geldedc1225
cutted1438
geltc1440
chaste1526
evirate1606
castrated1609
memberless1611
unpaveda1616
libbed1616
cut1624
eunuched1627
caponed1630
untesticled1668
castrate1704
eunuch1817
emasculated1830
eunuchal1878
neuter1893
eunuchoid1894
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > relating to limbs > having no limbs
memberless1863
limbless1881
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [adjective] > having no member of parliament
memberless1866
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Tronçonner To make headlesse, branchlesse, memberlesse.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 158 A troop of leane fac't, beardlesse, memberlesse Eunuchs.
1863 J. D. Dana in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 36 337 Thus the Crab has a very small memberless abdomen.
1866 Sat. Rev. 28 Apr. 494/2 Three months of a new session are not yet over; yet already not a few boroughs have been pronounced memberless.
1942 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 3 50 I believe that those who use the term ‘subsistence’ intend it as [the] name of the very sort of being which a memberless class..possesses.
1999 Herald (Glasgow) 15 Sept. 17 The selection committee of the memberless constituency may..discover that they have minds of their own.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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