Also 4 bouwel(en, 5 bowaylyn, bowellyn, 7 bowell. [f. BOWEL sb.1 Cf. OF. boeler.]

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  1.  trans. To take out the bowels of, disembowel.

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c. 1330.  R. Brunne, Chron., 329. Fro þe galweis quik þei lete him doun, & bouweld him alle hote.

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1440.  J. Shirley, Dethe K. James (1818), 27. Many of the other traitours were boweld all qwik.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 46. Bowaylyn, eviscero.

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1566.  Gascoigne, Jocasta, Wks. (1587), 95. In thy sacred name I bowel here This sacrifice.

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1655.  Fuller, Ch. Hist., IX. 169. Five Seminaries … were hanged, bowelled, and quartered for treason.

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1725.  Bradley, Fam. Dict., II. s.v. Sprain, Take a … Whelp, flea and bowel him.

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1861.  Dixon, Bacon, x. § 6. Coke, bent on hanging and bowelling all these miserable wretches.

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  † 2.  fig. To stir the bowels of, move or arouse the compassion of. Obs. rare.

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1645.  Rutherford, Tryal & Tri. Faith (1845), 270. He was bowelled in heart, his bowels were moved with compassion.

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