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disˈmembering, vbl. n.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb dismember; dismemberment.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋517 For cristes sake ne swereth nat so synfully in dismembrynge of Crist, by soule, herte, bones, and body. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 157/2 That no bishop nor..clergie should be at the judgement of anie mans death or dismembring. 1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 2 In dismembring of the legge or arm below the knee or elbow. 1677Govt. Venice 75 The dismembring of Bressia..from the Dutchy of Milan. 1816Keatinge Trav. (1817) I. 244 Shooting, beheading, maiming, and dismembering, all are executed as the monarch awards upon the spot.
†2. concr. A division into members; a separate member or part. Obs. rare.
1603Florio Montaigne iii. x. (1632) 570 Of so many dismembrings [Fr. membres] that Sufficiency hath, patience sufficeth us.
3. attrib.
1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks (1653) 5 The dismembring saw. 1715Kersey, Dismembring-knife, a Surgeon's Instrument to cut off a Limb, etc. |