Embowel
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To enclose or bury. obsolete
"[H]e therefore hastened on, and conducted Carlstadt to the spot he had recently quitted, and discovered to him a rude mishapen entrance to a flight of steps, which appeared as conducting ones to some dwelling emboweled in the earth."
- 2 To remove the bowels; disembowel. archaic
"[…] So had given no direction about his body. I have cauſed it to be embowelled, and depoſited in a vault, till I have orders from England."
Example
More examples"[H]e therefore hastened on, and conducted Carlstadt to the spot he had recently quitted, and discovered to him a rude mishapen entrance to a flight of steps, which appeared as conducting ones to some dwelling emboweled in the earth."
Etymology
From em- + bowel.
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