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mutilator|ˈmjuːtɪleɪtə(r)|
Also 7 -er.
[a. L. mutilātor, agent-n. f. mutilāre to mutilate.]
One who mutilates.
1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 181 That hurters and mutilaters of ministers may once at last be taken. 1767Bush Hibernia Cur. To Rdr. (1769) 12 That class of hireling pedagogal priggs, the abridgers, or rather mutilators of our civil history. 1820Lamb Elia Ser. i. Two Races Men, I mean your borrowers of books—those mutilators of collections,..and creators of odd volumes. 1828Scott F.M. Perth vii, Our townsman..did far wrong to cut off a gentleman's hand for such a harmless pleasantry, and the town may be brought to a heavy fine for it, unless we secure the person of the mutilator. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) I. iii. 111 Bentley was..the tasteless mutilator of Milton. |