disbowel, v.
(dɪsˈbaʊɪl)
In 5 dysbowalyn.
[f. dis- 7 a + bowel n.]
trans. To take out the bowels of, eviscerate; = disembowel. lit. and fig.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 122 Dysbowalyn, eviscero, exentero. 1591 Spenser Ruins of Rome 383 A great Oke..halfe disbowel'd lies aboue the ground. 1708 Wilson, etc. tr. Petronius Arbiter 75 The Cook that had forgotten to disbowel the Hog. 1711 Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) VI. 704 His body has been disbowelled, and put into pickle. |
b. To take out (bowels or viscera).
| 1591 R. W. Tancred & Gismunda v. i. in Hazl. Dodsley VII. 83 Thus was Earl Palurin Strangled unto the death, yea, after death His heart and blood disbowell'd from his breast. |
Hence disˈbowelled ppl. a., disˈbowelling vbl. n.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 122 Dysbowalynge, evisceracio. 1680 Lond. Gaz. No. 1508/4 A most Curious and Excellent way of Preserving Dead Bodies, from Putrefaction..without Disbowelling, seer-cloathing, mangling or Cutting any part thereof. a 1719 Addison tr. Horace Wks. (1758) 146 Nor the disbowell'd earth explore In search of the forbidden ore. 1871 Rossetti Poems, Burden of Nineveh ii, 'Twas bull, 'twas mitred Minotaur, A dead disbowelled mystery. |