Embowel

/ɛmˈbaʊ.əl/ · verb

Meaning

(obsolete) To enclose or bury..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) To enclose or bury.
2. (archaic) To remove the bowels; disembowel.

Example Sentences

[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.

[…] 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.

Who doubts that the fineing, whipping, torturing, hanging, embowelling of men, women, and children, guilty of no other crime than adhesion to the Catholic faith, had assisted the Pope and Philip, and their band of English, Scotch, and Irish conspirators, to shake Elizabeth's throne and endanger her life?

As to that part of the sentence which relates to embowelling, it was never executed now, but this omission was owing to accident, or to the mercy of the executioner, not to the discretion of the judge. "

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Word Forms

• embowels
• emboweling
• embowelling
• emboweled
• embowelled
• imbowel

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