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mutilated, ppl. a.|ˈmjuːtɪleɪtɪd|
[f. mutilate v. + -ed1.]
1. = mutilate a. 1; also, rarely, castrated.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. *iv, Wounded & mutilatede persons. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 106 The most splendid palace in the world, which they left..strewed with..mutilated carcases. 1812Byron Ch. Har. ii. lviii, The lively, supple Greek; And swarthy Nubia's mutilated son. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. xvii. 315 Mutilated statuary. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life Introd. 67 Some..portion of the mutilated organ or limb should be left in situ.
2. Of things: Having some part cut off or destroyed; wanting some portion essential to completeness.
1628Sir R. Le Grys tr. Barclay's Argenis 93 Thou mayest yet see the Cities as it were mutilated, the roofes and pinnacles of the Temples being broken downe. 1771Mackenzie Man Feel. xl. 264 Harley's own story, from the mutilated passages I have mentioned..I found to have been simple to excess. 1784Cowper Task. i. 774 Folly such as your's..Has made..Our arch of empire..A mutilated structure, soon to fall. 1862Burton Bk. Hunter (1863) 43 A call by a public library to replace a mutilated book with a new copy. 1875Darwin Insectiv. Pl. xiii. 319 This mutilated leaf..re-expanded in two days. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 340 He was encouraged to make aggressions on her mutilated territory.
3. Special applications. (See quots.)
1693tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Myurus, a mutilated Pulse, increasing or decreasing gradually. 1696Phillips (ed. 5), Mutilated, otherwise called Azimene Degrees, are certain degrees in several Signs, that threaten the Native that has them Ascending, with Lameness [etc.]. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Corniche, Mutilated Corniche is that whose projecture is omitted, or else interrupted, right to the larmier, or reduced into a platband with a cimatium. Ibid., Mutilated Roof. Sometimes it is cut, or mutilated, that is, consists of a true and a false roof which is laid over the former: this last is particularly called a mansard. 1793Martyn Lang. Bot. (1796) s.v. Mutilatus, A mutilated flower. Not producing a corolla, when it ought regularly to do it. 1802C. James Milit. Dict. s.v., A battalion is said to be mutilated, when its divisions, &c., stand unequal. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Mutilated Wheel, a wheel, from a part of the perimeter of which the cogs are removed. |