morcellement

German house-father had really performed with complete success craniotomy and delivery of a child _en morcellement_, in the case of a colleague's wife.

A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Wilfred Thomason Grenfell 1902

Lord John Russell answered: 'We are asked to propose a partition (_morcellement_) of the peoples of Italy, as if we had the right to dispose of them.'

The Liberation of Italy Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco 1891

Bazard calls a general _sauve-qui-peut_ (let the devil take the hindmost); what Fourier designates as a _morcellement industriel_, and a _fraude commerciale_; what M. Chevalier denominated “a battle-field on which the little are devoured by the big;” and in such case, as Bodz-Reymond says, the word competition, meaning simply that each one is permitted to run in whatever direction he may see a door open to him, is but another and a new expression for vagabondizing.

System der volkswirthschaft. English Wilhelm Roscher 1855