mutilativeadj.

1880 Mind 5 453 So, too, tattooing and other mutilative practices, originally subordinative in their intention..are prized by women as increasing their natural attractions.

1883 Times 20 June 11 This fatal and mutilative disease [sc. small-pox].

1912 Philos. Rev. 21 412 And does not all this confirm Bergson's contention that action and intellect are necessarily mutilative?

1951 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 12 12 There are numerous records of imperial edicts softening the rigours of the earliest codes, for example..the mildening of mutilative punishments in 144 B.C.

1984 MacNeil–Lehrer Newshour (WNET/Thirteen Transcript No. 2244) 3 May 9 Patients..with 10, 12, 14 millimeter pockets, which we're successfully treating without mutilative, painful, expensive surgery.