embowelled, ppl. a.
(ɛmˈbaʊɪld)
[f. prec.]
1. = disembowelled. lit. and fig.
| 1594 Shakes. Rich. III, v. ii. 10 The Boare makes his trough In your embowel'd bosomes. 1695 Blackmore Pr. Arth. i. 261 Exploded Thunder tears th' Embowel'd Sky. 1789 Wolcott (P. Pindar) Subj. Painters 10 Sweeter than hist'ry of embowell'd saint. |
2. fig. That lies hid in the bowels or heart of a thing; internal, intestine.
| 1609 Bp. Barlow Answ. Nameless Catholike 236 Hauing such Embowelled enemies within his Realmes. c 1750 Shenstone Elegy xx. 62 For them we drain the mine's embowell'd gold. 1854 S. Dobell Balder xxiv. 169 Like an embowelled earthquake yet unbelched. |
† 3. That has the bowels full. Obs.
| 1486 Bk. St. Albans A vij, If..the bowell [be] any thyng stiffid . ye shall say she is embowellid. |