embowelling, vbl. n.
(ɛmˈbaʊɪlɪŋ)
[f. embowel v. + -ing1.]
= disembowelling.
| 1725 Swift Drapier's Lett. Wks. 1755 V. ii. 79 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.
| 1654 Gayton Pleasant Notes on Don Quixot 91 These exenterations, embowellings, and disgorgings made Sancho's appetite like a swine. |