ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.] Cut off, as a limb, etc.
1713. Cheselden, Anat. (1726), III. viii. 221. A limb that has had part amputated.
1749. Wesley, Prin. Physic (1765), 38. This will stop the Bleeding of an amputated Limb.
1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., II. VI. iii. 158. Lame of a foot, foot lately amputated of two toes.
b. fig. Pruned, excised.
1824. Dibdin, Libr. Comp., 66. An octavo edition of them appeared in a very amputated and imperfect state.
