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  1.  = DISEMBOWELLED. lit. and fig.

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1594.  Shaks., Rich. III., V. ii. 10. The Boare makes his trough In your embowel’d bosomes.

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1695.  Blackmore, Pr. Arth., I. 261/9.

        Exploded Thunder tears th’ Embowel’d Sky,
And Sulphurous Flames a dismal Day supply.

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1789.  Wolcott (P. Pindar), Subj. Painters, 10. Sweeter than hist’ry of embowell’d saint.

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  2.  fig. That lies hid in the bowels or heart of a thing; internal, intestine.

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1609.  Bp. W. Barlow, Answ. Nameless Catholike, 236. Hauing such Embowelled enemies within his Realmes as Iesuites are.

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c. 1750.  Shenstone, Elegy, xx. 62. For them we drain the mine’s embowell’d gold.

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1854.  Syd. Dobell, Balder, xxiv. 169. Like an embowelled earthquake yet unbelched.

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  † 3.  That has the bowels full. Obs.

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1486.  Bk. St. Albans, A vij. If … the bowell [be] any thyng stiffid . ye shall say she is embowellid.

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