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▪ I. † unˈbowelled, ppl. a. Obs. [f. prec.] Disembowelled. Also fig.
1592Kyd Sp. Trag. i. ii. 61 There legs and armes lye bleeding on the grasse, Mingled with weapons, and vnboweld steedes. 1637N. Whiting Albino & Bellama 32 Th' hollow belly of th' un-boweld earth. 1655Vaughan Silex Scint. i. (1858) 27 Unbowel'd nature, shew'd thee her recruits And change of suits. ▪ II. unˈbowelled, a. [un-1 9.] Having no bowels; fig. unaffectionate, pitiless.
1592R. D. Hypnerotomachia 17, I issued foorth of the unbowelled monster. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass., etc. 241 The unbowel'd love which they bear unto them, is more prejudicial to them, then is their enemies implacable hatred. Ibid., Pol. Touchstone 403 That unbowel'd beyond sea Renegado. 1815Milman Fazio (1821) 81 As deaf and hollow as the unbowell'd winds. |