Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To deprive of the entrails; eviscerate; disembowel.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To deprive of the entrails; to disembowel.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To deprive of the entrails; to disembowel.
Etymologies
- un- + bowel (Wiktionary)
Examples
“With these and other such passages the poor gentleman grew distracted, and was breaking his brains day and night, to understand and unbowel their sense, an endless labour; for even Aristotle himself would not understand them, though he were again resuscitated only for that purpose.”
“This prepar'd, they first unbowel the Corps (and in the poorer sort, to save Charges, took out the Brain behind): after the Body was thus order'd, they had in readiness a _lixivium_ made of the Bark of Pine-Trees, wherewith they washt the Body, drying it in the Sun in Summer and in the Winter in”
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
“And let not every man sit down in a general notion of sin, but unbowel it until you see uncleanness, go up to the fountain head, original corruption, go down to all the streams, even the iniquity of holy things.”
“I beseech you, unbowel your evils, that you may abhor them.”
“Now, that ye may know what you are, and what little reason you have to be pleased with yourselves, and absolve yourselves as ye do, I shall unbowel that iniquity unto you.”
“Oh! that ye could unbowel your own ways, and see what a cluster of lies and incongruities is in them, what reproaches and calumnies these practical lies cast upon the honour of your”
“And now, having unbowelled But since I had thus adventured my very soul thus to unbowel myself, freely to you, &c. and to lay open the very inmost thoughts of my heart.”
Waltoniana Inedited Remains in Verse and Prose of Izaak Walton
“This were a spiritual study, a noble discovery to unbowel your duties, to divide them, and to give unto God what is God’s, and take unto yourselves what is your own.”
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