† mutilaten.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mutilate adj.

Etymology: < mutilate adj. Compare scientific Latin Mutilata , name of a former division of mammals (R. Owen 1858, in Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 2 25, after Linnaeus's Mutica : see muticate adj.). N.E.D. (1908) gives the pronunciation as (miū·tilĕt) /ˈmjuːtɪlət/.

Zoology. Obsolete.

A mutilate animal; (spec. in J. D. Dana's classification) a member of the former order Mutilata of aquatic mammals in which the hind limbs are absent or much reduced, including cetaceans and sirenians. Cf. muticate adj. 1, mutilate adj. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > members of disused divisions

plantigrade1835

subplantigrade1847

microsthene1863

mutilate1863

1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. 423 Mutilates. The limbs short and paddle-like for swimming.

1863 J. D. Dana in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 35 71 There is a close parallelism with the Mutilates, the lowest of the Megasthenes.

1870 H. A. Ward Catal. Acad. Ser. Casts Fossils 17 By some authors they [sc. cetaceans] are called ‘Mutilates’ because their hind limbs appear to have been amputated.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

mutilateadj.

Brit.

/ˈmjuːtᵻleɪt/, U.S.

/ˈmjudəˌleɪt/, Scottish English

/ˈmjutᵻlet/

Forms: 1500s mutulate, 1500s mutylate, 1500s– mutilate; Scottish pre-1700 mitolat, pre-1700 mitulat, pre-1700 mutilait, pre-1700 mutilat, pre-1700 mutillait, pre-1700 mutillate, pre-1700 mutulat, pre-1700 mutulate, pre-1700 mvtillait, pre-1700 mwtilate, pre-1700 mwtillit, pre-1700 1700s– mutilate.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin mutilātus, mutilāre.

Etymology: < classical Latin mutilātus, past participle of mutilāre mutilate v.

Chiefly Scottish in early use. Now rare.

1. Of a thing (material or immaterial): having some part destroyed or missing; having an essential part or parts omitted; imperfect.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [adjective] > in specific way: defective or faulty > incomplete

mutilatea1522

castrated1609

mutilated1628

mutilous1649

a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) v. Prol. 51 Flys febil proys beyn mank and mutulate [Small ed. mutilait].

1567 J. Sanford tr. Epictetus Man. 6 The instrument being mutilate and vnperfect.

1568 G. Bannatyne in A. Scott Poems (1902) 1 To Rdr. My copeis awld, mankit, and mvtillait.

1609 S. Grahame Anat. Humors f. 10^v He is an heretick poet, who can ryme extempore mitolat lynes, stropyat verses with halting feete.

1638 in T. Thomson Acts & Proc. Kirk of Scotl. (1839) I. App. p. xxiii Which register is imperfect and mutilate in the end and containeth no leaf or page.

1645 H. Hammond Of Conscience (new ed.) §71 The maimed mutilate obedience, the compounding betwixt God and Satan.

1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 57 The story as he has castrated it is so mutilate and deficient.

1814 R. Southey Roderick xviii. 223 Mutilate..Of royal rites was this solemnity.

1959 W. Everson Gethsemani in Crooked Lines of God i. 37 All that matchless Concatenation of impulse and restraint..—Where is it now?.. Torn from the fragile synthesis, To leave it mutilate.

2. Of a human body: lacking or deprived of one or more of its limbs; mutilated. Of a limb: damaged by mutilation. Also figurative. Chiefly literary and poetic in later use.

ΘΚΠ

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

1525 in G. Donaldson & C. Macrae St. Andrews Formulare (1942) I. 268 The Kingis..liegis men..ar..part slane utheris mutilate brynt heriit [etc.]..oppinlie on day lycht and undere silence of the nycht.

a1533 J. Frith Mirroure (?c1536) iii. sig. Bi We..are moche bounde to hym that he hath geuen to vs oure perfeyte membres... Yet..we are moch bounde vnto him all though he hath made vs imperfeyte & mutilate.

1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance xxiii. f. 43 He behelde a great numbre of persones, some..mutylate of theyr members.

1563–4 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 269 In caise any of thame..happynnis to be hurt, mutilat, or slane.

1612 in D. Laing Reg. Domus de Soltre (1861) 246 For the interteanement of the hospitallis pure mwtillit and indigent personnes orphalingis [etc.].

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. ii. 342 Criples mutilate in their owne persons, do come out perfect in their generations.

1689 in H. Paton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1932) 3rd Ser. XIII. 525 Wher the petitioner was mitulat and bruised..whereby the petitioner is rendered incapable of any..inployment.

1795 R. Southey Vision Maid of Orleans i. 82 Imaged forms Of saints and warlike chiefs, moss-canker'd now And mutilate, lay strewn upon the ground.

1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision I. xxviii. 122 Another shade, Pierc'd in the throat, his nostrils mutilate.

1876 H. Melville Clarel II. iv. xiii. 492 Look, and yet seem not to peer, Lest pain ye give: an eye, an ear, A hand, is mutilate or gone.

1885 ‘M. Field’ Loyalty or Love? v. vii, in Father's Trag. 310 He's in the Alps, Blind, mutilate, and motherless, The man-child of my womb.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 4 Sept. 3/1 Amputation—the absolute severance of Church from State—leaves the old body social mutilate.

†3. Biology. Of an animal or plant: having some part common to related forms either absent or present only in a modified or rudimentary state; spec. designating or belonging to the former division Mutilata of mammals with reduced limbs (see mutilate n.). Obsolete.

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the world > life > biology > taxonomy > taxon > [adjective] > species or sub-species > deficient in part

mutilate1760

mutilated1793

muticate1842

1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. xx. 62 Mutilate Flowers are the reverse of Luxuriant. Linnæus confines the Term to those Flowers only that want the Corollæ, though they ought to be furnished with it.

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 333 Mutilate (Mutilata). When they [sc. the elytra] appear unnaturally short or curtailed as if mutilated.

1871 Amer. Naturalist 5 530 (Mutilate Series.) Posterior members and pelvis more or less completely atrophied... Order Sirenia... Order Cete.

1885 Amer. Naturalist 19 352 The loss of pelvis and posterior limbs in the two mutilate orders [sc. sirenians and cetaceans] is clearly a degenerate character.

Derivatives

† mutilateness n. Obsolete rare

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [noun] > condition

mutilateness1599

maimedness1607

mutilation1611

mutilousness1668

1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 199/1 It will prævent the mutilatenes of anye persone.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

mutilatev.

Brit.

/ˈmjuːtᵻleɪt/,

/ˈmjuːtl̩eɪt/, U.S.

/ˈmjudlˌeɪt/

Forms: 1500s–1600s mutulate, 1500s– mutilate; also Scottish pre-1700 metulat, pre-1700 mittulat, pre-1700 mitulat, pre-1700 muitillett (past tense and past participle), pre-1700 mutelat, pre-1700 mutilat, pre-1700 mutilat (past tense and past participle), pre-1700 mutilate (past tense and past participle), pre-1700 mutilet (past tense and past participle), pre-1700 mutillat (past tense and past participle), pre-1700 mutulat (past tense and past participle), pre-1700 mutulate (past tense and past participle), pre-1700 1800s mittellate.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin mutilāt-, mutilāre.

Etymology: < classical Latin mutilāt-, past participial stem (compare -ate suffix³) of mutilāre to damage by cutting or breaking off a part, to maim, mutilate (a body, etc.), to cut or lop off < mutilus maimed, without horns, of unknown origin (perhaps related to Early Irish mut short).

1. transitive. To render (a thing, esp. a book or other document) imperfect by cutting out or excising a part; to change or destroy part of the content or meaning of.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > printing > post-printing processes > [verb (transitive)] > make imperfect, cut off or destroy part of book

mutilate1534

castrate1627

emasculate1756

bowdlerize1836

pith1852

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)] > by breaking, tearing, or cutting something off

forcutc1386

shattera1513

cancel1574

snip1822

mutilate1824

shard1879

detruncate1885

nick1885

1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1291/1 I wil not in any worde wyllinglye, mangle or mutulate that honourable mans worke.

c1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 65 The maters being relating to Bishops, it is easie to espy who did mutilat the Register.

1697 P. A. Motteux et al. Novelty Pref. I could easily contract the most moving Part of the Story into the Compass of one Act, with some Additions; yet without mutilating my Author's Sense.

1701 N. Grew Cosmol. Sacra v. i. §40 The Scriptures are hereby [sc. by the various Lections], neither Mutilated, nor Depraved.

1780 S. Lee Chapter of Accidents Pref. piv I was enough mistress of myself to listen with complaisance to the most supercilious and unmeaning criticisms, and agreed to mutilate it [sc. a play] according to his ideas.

1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 681 Which [book-leaves] have been dreadfully devoured or mutilated by..some..animal.

1902 A. Lang Hist. Scotl. II. ix. 208 The deposition of Bowton was mutilated, to shield Murray's associates.

1978 S. Maitland Journeyman Press (BNC) 11 I had taken to cutting ‘Miss’ off my meter reading cards..and it was one of those cards you aren't allowed to cut or mutilate as it upsets the computer.

1991 R. Bocock Freud & Mod. Society (BNC) 30 The analyst instructs the patient in reading his own texts, which he himself has mutilated or distorted.

2. transitive. To deprive (a person or animal) of the use of a limb or bodily organ, by dismemberment or otherwise; to cut off or destroy (a limb or organ); to wound severely, inflict violent or disfiguring injury on. Also intransitive.In early use frequently in Scots Law; cf. mutilation n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > maim or mutilate [verb (transitive)]

wemc900

slaya1000

alithOE

hamblea1050

belimbc1225

dismember1297

lamec1300

maimc1325

shearc1330

unablec1380

emblemishc1384

magglec1425

magc1450

demember1491

disablea1492

manglea1500

menyie?a1513

mayhem1533

mutilatec1570

martyr1592

stump1596

bemaim1605

cripplea1616

martyrize1615

deartuate1623

hamstring1641

becripple1660

limb1674

truncate1727

dislimb1855

c1570 in W. Fraser Memorials Family Wemyss (1888) II. 201 And thair mutulat me.

a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) xiii. xi. f. 523^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Mutilat He..mutulate thare sonnys.

1609 J. Skene tr. Stat. Rob. II c. 11 in Regiam Majestatem (1774) 395 Gif ane man mutilats ane other, or wounds, or beates him, be forthocht felonie.

1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Mutilate, to maime, cut off, or make lame.

1629 in P. H. Brown Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1901) 2nd Ser. III. 41 They disjoynted and mutilat both her armes and made the sinewes to loupe asunder.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. ii. 342 Such as fearing to concede a monstrosity, or mutilate the integrity of Adam, preventively conceive the creation of thirteene ribs.

1734 Fidler's Fling at Roguery ii. 101 They'll explode, or mutilate To bring 't within Reach of their Pate.

1783 J. O. Justamond tr. G. T. F. Raynal Philos. Hist. Europeans in Indies (new ed.) V. 268 They are tyrannized, mutilated, burnt, and put to death.

1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 54 A high variolous susceptibility, which..when excited by art [sc. by vaccination]..very often mutilates, and very often destroys.

1822 Lauder's Chronol. Notes 135 M'Alla, skiper in Leith, sues before the Councill John Reid, skiper there, for mittellating him.

1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VI. 295 He was condemned to be mutilated,..in his nose and ears.

1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity II. iv. viii. 190 They were blinded, or mutilated by the loss of their tongues.

1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxi. 525 Sheep-dogs were purposely mutilated in order to prevent their running game down.

1916 E. R. Burroughs Beasts of Tarzan viii. 120 The fiendish skill, that mutilated without bringing unconsciousness, had no terrors for him.

1991 Young People Now 22 Feb. 18/2 Every day some of them are tortured, mutilated and killed by death squads run by the police.

3. transitive. In extended use: to cut back or curtail so as to render ineffectual; to impose brutal or ruinous change on.

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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail to [verb (transitive)] > have no effect upon > render ineffectual

voida1340

mortifyc1390

to lay in water?c1425

frustrate1471

stint1509

mutilatec1570

dead1602

unvirtuate1611

ineffectuate1633

nonplus1640

c1570 R. Morice in J. G. Nichols Narr. Reformation (1859) 239 The said scholemaster so appalled..the tender and fyne wittes of his scholers, whose memories were also therby so mutulated and wounded, that [etc.].

1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) 82 Their tutor and gouernour..fearing the yonge gentlemen would not discontinue their discord, vnlesse his persuations tooke some better order, mutilated their scouldinges.

1769 T. Smollett Adventures of Atom II. 54 We have seen how he mutilated and frittered the original scheme of the campaign in Fatsisio, so as to leave it at the caprice of Fortune.

1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. §50. 196 Let a man sit down to the study of the Bible..mutilating no endowment of his understanding.

1863 A. Trollope Rachel Ray II. iii. 50 His parish had been invaded and his clerical authority mutilated.

1940 T. Wolfe & E. C. Aswell You can't go Home Again i. vii. 111 The fairest places in the town were being mutilated at untold cost.

1997 High Country News 3 Mar. 6/2 It wouldn't shut down the research projects here, but it would mutilate them.

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n.1863

adj.a1522

v.1534

单词	mutilate
释义	† mutilaten. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mutilate adj. Etymology: < mutilate adj. Compare scientific Latin Mutilata , name of a former division of mammals (R. Owen 1858, in Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 2 25, after Linnaeus's Mutica : see muticate adj.). N.E.D. (1908) gives the pronunciation as (miū·tilĕt) /ˈmjuːtɪlət/. Zoology. Obsolete. A mutilate animal; (spec. in J. D. Dana's classification) a member of the former order Mutilata of aquatic mammals in which the hind limbs are absent or much reduced, including cetaceans and sirenians. Cf. muticate adj. 1, mutilate adj. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > members of disused divisions plantigrade1835 subplantigrade1847 microsthene1863 mutilate1863 1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. 423 Mutilates. The limbs short and paddle-like for swimming. 1863 J. D. Dana in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 35 71 There is a close parallelism with the Mutilates, the lowest of the Megasthenes. 1870 H. A. Ward Catal. Acad. Ser. Casts Fossils 17 By some authors they [sc. cetaceans] are called ‘Mutilates’ because their hind limbs appear to have been amputated. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2019). mutilateadj. Brit. /ˈmjuːtᵻleɪt/, U.S. /ˈmjudəˌleɪt/, Scottish English /ˈmjutᵻlet/ Forms: 1500s mutulate, 1500s mutylate, 1500s– mutilate; Scottish pre-1700 mitolat, pre-1700 mitulat, pre-1700 mutilait, pre-1700 mutilat, pre-1700 mutillait, pre-1700 mutillate, pre-1700 mutulat, pre-1700 mutulate, pre-1700 mvtillait, pre-1700 mwtilate, pre-1700 mwtillit, pre-1700 1700s– mutilate. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin mutilātus, mutilāre. Etymology: < classical Latin mutilātus, past participle of mutilāre mutilate v. Chiefly Scottish in early use. Now rare. 1. Of a thing (material or immaterial): having some part destroyed or missing; having an essential part or parts omitted; imperfect. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [adjective] > in specific way: defective or faulty > incomplete mutilatea1522 castrated1609 mutilated1628 mutilous1649 a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) v. Prol. 51 Flys febil proys beyn mank and mutulate [Small ed. mutilait]. 1567 J. Sanford tr. Epictetus Man. 6 The instrument being mutilate and vnperfect. 1568 G. Bannatyne in A. Scott Poems (1902) 1 To Rdr. My copeis awld, mankit, and mvtillait. 1609 S. Grahame Anat. Humors f. 10^v He is an heretick poet, who can ryme extempore mitolat lynes, stropyat verses with halting feete. 1638 in T. Thomson Acts & Proc. Kirk of Scotl. (1839) I. App. p. xxiii Which register is imperfect and mutilate in the end and containeth no leaf or page. 1645 H. Hammond Of Conscience (new ed.) §71 The maimed mutilate obedience, the compounding betwixt God and Satan. 1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 57 The story as he has castrated it is so mutilate and deficient. 1814 R. Southey Roderick xviii. 223 Mutilate..Of royal rites was this solemnity. 1959 W. Everson Gethsemani in Crooked Lines of God i. 37 All that matchless Concatenation of impulse and restraint..—Where is it now?.. Torn from the fragile synthesis, To leave it mutilate. 2. Of a human body: lacking or deprived of one or more of its limbs; mutilated. Of a limb: damaged by mutilation. Also figurative. Chiefly literary and poetic in later use. ΘΚΠ 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 1525 in G. Donaldson & C. Macrae St. Andrews Formulare (1942) I. 268 The Kingis..liegis men..ar..part slane utheris mutilate brynt heriit [etc.]..oppinlie on day lycht and undere silence of the nycht. a1533 J. Frith Mirroure (?c1536) iii. sig. Bi We..are moche bounde to hym that he hath geuen to vs oure perfeyte membres... Yet..we are moch bounde vnto him all though he hath made vs imperfeyte & mutilate. 1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance xxiii. f. 43 He behelde a great numbre of persones, some..mutylate of theyr members. 1563–4 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 269 In caise any of thame..happynnis to be hurt, mutilat, or slane. 1612 in D. Laing Reg. Domus de Soltre (1861) 246 For the interteanement of the hospitallis pure mwtillit and indigent personnes orphalingis [etc.]. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. ii. 342 Criples mutilate in their owne persons, do come out perfect in their generations. View more context for this quotation 1689 in H. Paton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1932) 3rd Ser. XIII. 525 Wher the petitioner was mitulat and bruised..whereby the petitioner is rendered incapable of any..inployment. 1795 R. Southey Vision Maid of Orleans i. 82 Imaged forms Of saints and warlike chiefs, moss-canker'd now And mutilate, lay strewn upon the ground. 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision I. xxviii. 122 Another shade, Pierc'd in the throat, his nostrils mutilate. 1876 H. Melville Clarel II. iv. xiii. 492 Look, and yet seem not to peer, Lest pain ye give: an eye, an ear, A hand, is mutilate or gone. 1885 ‘M. Field’ Loyalty or Love? v. vii, in Father's Trag. 310 He's in the Alps, Blind, mutilate, and motherless, The man-child of my womb. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 4 Sept. 3/1 Amputation—the absolute severance of Church from State—leaves the old body social mutilate. †3. Biology. Of an animal or plant: having some part common to related forms either absent or present only in a modified or rudimentary state; spec. designating or belonging to the former division Mutilata of mammals with reduced limbs (see mutilate n.). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > taxonomy > taxon > [adjective] > species or sub-species > deficient in part mutilate1760 mutilated1793 muticate1842 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. xx. 62 Mutilate Flowers are the reverse of Luxuriant. Linnæus confines the Term to those Flowers only that want the Corollæ, though they ought to be furnished with it. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 333 Mutilate (Mutilata). When they [sc. the elytra] appear unnaturally short or curtailed as if mutilated. 1871 Amer. Naturalist 5 530 (Mutilate Series.) Posterior members and pelvis more or less completely atrophied... Order Sirenia... Order Cete. 1885 Amer. Naturalist 19 352 The loss of pelvis and posterior limbs in the two mutilate orders [sc. sirenians and cetaceans] is clearly a degenerate character. Derivatives † mutilateness n. Obsolete rare ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [noun] > condition mutilateness1599 maimedness1607 mutilation1611 mutilousness1668 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 199/1 It will prævent the mutilatenes of anye persone. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). mutilatev. Brit. /ˈmjuːtᵻleɪt/, /ˈmjuːtl̩eɪt/, U.S. /ˈmjudlˌeɪt/ Forms: 1500s–1600s mutulate, 1500s– mutilate; also Scottish pre-1700 metulat, pre-1700 mittulat, pre-1700 mitulat, pre-1700 muitillett (past tense and past participle), pre-1700 mutelat, pre-1700 mutilat, pre-1700 mutilat (past tense and past participle), pre-1700 mutilate (past tense and past participle), pre-1700 mutilet (past tense and past participle), pre-1700 mutillat (past tense and past participle), pre-1700 mutulat (past tense and past participle), pre-1700 mutulate (past tense and past participle), pre-1700 1800s mittellate. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin mutilāt-, mutilāre. Etymology: < classical Latin mutilāt-, past participial stem (compare -ate suffix³) of mutilāre to damage by cutting or breaking off a part, to maim, mutilate (a body, etc.), to cut or lop off < mutilus maimed, without horns, of unknown origin (perhaps related to Early Irish mut short). 1. transitive. To render (a thing, esp. a book or other document) imperfect by cutting out or excising a part; to change or destroy part of the content or meaning of. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > post-printing processes > [verb (transitive)] > make imperfect, cut off or destroy part of book mutilate1534 castrate1627 emasculate1756 bowdlerize1836 pith1852 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)] > by breaking, tearing, or cutting something off forcutc1386 shattera1513 cancel1574 snip1822 mutilate1824 shard1879 detruncate1885 nick1885 1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1291/1 I wil not in any worde wyllinglye, mangle or mutulate that honourable mans worke. c1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 65 The maters being relating to Bishops, it is easie to espy who did mutilat the Register. 1697 P. A. Motteux et al. Novelty Pref. I could easily contract the most moving Part of the Story into the Compass of one Act, with some Additions; yet without mutilating my Author's Sense. 1701 N. Grew Cosmol. Sacra v. i. §40 The Scriptures are hereby [sc. by the various Lections], neither Mutilated, nor Depraved. 1780 S. Lee Chapter of Accidents Pref. piv I was enough mistress of myself to listen with complaisance to the most supercilious and unmeaning criticisms, and agreed to mutilate it [sc. a play] according to his ideas. 1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 681 Which [book-leaves] have been dreadfully devoured or mutilated by..some..animal. 1902 A. Lang Hist. Scotl. II. ix. 208 The deposition of Bowton was mutilated, to shield Murray's associates. 1978 S. Maitland Journeyman Press (BNC) 11 I had taken to cutting ‘Miss’ off my meter reading cards..and it was one of those cards you aren't allowed to cut or mutilate as it upsets the computer. 1991 R. Bocock Freud & Mod. Society (BNC) 30 The analyst instructs the patient in reading his own texts, which he himself has mutilated or distorted. 2. transitive. To deprive (a person or animal) of the use of a limb or bodily organ, by dismemberment or otherwise; to cut off or destroy (a limb or organ); to wound severely, inflict violent or disfiguring injury on. Also intransitive.In early use frequently in Scots Law; cf. mutilation n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > maim or mutilate [verb (transitive)] wemc900 slaya1000 alithOE hamblea1050 belimbc1225 dismember1297 lamec1300 maimc1325 shearc1330 unablec1380 emblemishc1384 magglec1425 magc1450 demember1491 disablea1492 manglea1500 menyie?a1513 mayhem1533 mutilatec1570 martyr1592 stump1596 bemaim1605 cripplea1616 martyrize1615 deartuate1623 hamstring1641 becripple1660 limb1674 truncate1727 dislimb1855 c1570 in W. Fraser Memorials Family Wemyss (1888) II. 201 And thair mutulat me. a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) xiii. xi. f. 523^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Mutilat He..mutulate thare sonnys. 1609 J. Skene tr. Stat. Rob. II c. 11 in Regiam Majestatem (1774) 395 Gif ane man mutilats ane other, or wounds, or beates him, be forthocht felonie. 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Mutilate, to maime, cut off, or make lame. 1629 in P. H. Brown Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1901) 2nd Ser. III. 41 They disjoynted and mutilat both her armes and made the sinewes to loupe asunder. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. ii. 342 Such as fearing to concede a monstrosity, or mutilate the integrity of Adam, preventively conceive the creation of thirteene ribs. View more context for this quotation 1734 Fidler's Fling at Roguery ii. 101 They'll explode, or mutilate To bring 't within Reach of their Pate. 1783 J. O. Justamond tr. G. T. F. Raynal Philos. Hist. Europeans in Indies (new ed.) V. 268 They are tyrannized, mutilated, burnt, and put to death. 1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 54 A high variolous susceptibility, which..when excited by art [sc. by vaccination]..very often mutilates, and very often destroys. 1822 Lauder's Chronol. Notes 135 M'Alla, skiper in Leith, sues before the Councill John Reid, skiper there, for mittellating him. 1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VI. 295 He was condemned to be mutilated,..in his nose and ears. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity II. iv. viii. 190 They were blinded, or mutilated by the loss of their tongues. 1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxi. 525 Sheep-dogs were purposely mutilated in order to prevent their running game down. 1916 E. R. Burroughs Beasts of Tarzan viii. 120 The fiendish skill, that mutilated without bringing unconsciousness, had no terrors for him. 1991 Young People Now 22 Feb. 18/2 Every day some of them are tortured, mutilated and killed by death squads run by the police. 3. transitive. In extended use: to cut back or curtail so as to render ineffectual; to impose brutal or ruinous change on. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail to [verb (transitive)] > have no effect upon > render ineffectual voida1340 mortifyc1390 to lay in water?c1425 frustrate1471 stint1509 mutilatec1570 dead1602 unvirtuate1611 ineffectuate1633 nonplus1640 c1570 R. Morice in J. G. Nichols Narr. Reformation (1859) 239 The said scholemaster so appalled..the tender and fyne wittes of his scholers, whose memories were also therby so mutulated and wounded, that [etc.]. 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) 82 Their tutor and gouernour..fearing the yonge gentlemen would not discontinue their discord, vnlesse his persuations tooke some better order, mutilated their scouldinges. 1769 T. Smollett Adventures of Atom II. 54 We have seen how he mutilated and frittered the original scheme of the campaign in Fatsisio, so as to leave it at the caprice of Fortune. 1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. §50. 196 Let a man sit down to the study of the Bible..mutilating no endowment of his understanding. 1863 A. Trollope Rachel Ray II. iii. 50 His parish had been invaded and his clerical authority mutilated. 1940 T. Wolfe & E. C. Aswell You can't go Home Again i. vii. 111 The fairest places in the town were being mutilated at untold cost. 1997 High Country News 3 Mar. 6/2 It wouldn't shut down the research projects here, but it would mutilate them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1863adj.a1522v.1534
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