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单词 demembration
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demembrationn.

/diːmɛmˈbreɪʃən/
Etymology: < medieval Latin dēmembrātiōn-em, noun of action < dēmembrāre to dismember v.: see demember v. Compare Old French demanbration (Godefroy).
The cutting off of a limb; mutilation; dismemberment. (Chiefly in Scots Law.)
ΚΠ
1597 ed. Sc. Acts, Jas. IV §28 (heading) Anent man-slayers taken, or fugitive: and of Demembration.
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem Treat. 134 Mutilation and demembration is punished as slauchter.
1746–7 Act 20 Geo. II Any jurisdiction inferring the loss of life or demembration is abrogated.
1857 A. Jeffrey Hist. Roxburghshire II. iv. 269 The slaughter and demembration of a number of Turnbulls.
1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) Demembration..is applied to the offence of maliciously cutting off, or otherwise separating any limb, or member, from the body of another.
figurative.1829 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. II. ii. 164 The demembration of the kingdom, could not for a moment be entertained.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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