单词 | mutilator |
释义 | mutilatorn. A person who mutilates something (in various senses); an agent of mutilation. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [noun] > person mutilaterc1650 mutilator?1764 society > communication > printing > publishing > publisher > [noun] > censor > one who cuts off or destroys part of book mutilator?1764 ?1764 J. Bush Hibernia Curiosa To Rdr. p. xii That class of hireling pedagogal priggs, the abridgers, or rather mutilators of our civil history. 1823 C. Lamb Two Races of Men in Elia 57 I mean your borrowers of books—those mutilators of collections,..and creators of odd volumes. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 165 Our townsman..did far wrong to cut off a gentleman's hand for such a harmless pleasantry, and the town may be brought to a heavy fine for it, unless we secure the person of the mutilator. 1874 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 1st Ser. 136 Bentley was..the tasteless mutilator of Milton. 1918 Mind 27 339 Nobody can really murder a torturer, a mutilator, a ravisher... For they are all worse than a typical murderer, because more fruitful of wrongful pain. 1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 380/2 Both mutilators and non-mutilators had mean neuroticism scores that are significantly greater than the average. 1988 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 73 10 Officers of justice in the colony were commanded to institute criminal proceedings against masters and overseers who killed or mutilated slaves and to punish the murderer or mutilator according to the degree of atrocity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1764 |
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