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单词 mutilation
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mutilationn.

Brit. /ˌmjuːtᵻˈleɪʃn/, /ˌmjuːtlˈeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌmjudlˈeɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: 1500s– mutilation; Scottish pre-1700 mitilatioun, pre-1700 mittellatioune, pre-1700 mittolatioune, pre-1700 mutellatioun, pre-1700 mutilacione, pre-1700 mutilatione, pre-1700 mutilatioun, pre-1700 mutillation, pre-1700 mutillatione, pre-1700 mutillatioun, pre-1700 mutulatioun, pre-1700 1700s– mutilation.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French mutilacion, mutilation; Latin mutilation-, mutilatio.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman mutilacion, mutilation and Middle French, French mutilation the act of removing a limb or other part of the body (mid 13th cent. in Old French), partial destruction of a work of art (1559), castration (late 17th cent.), and their etymon post-classical Latin mutilation-, mutilatio truncation of a word or a line of poetry (late 3rd cent.), mutilation of the body (c400, of circumcision) < classical Latin mutilāt- , past participial stem of mutilāre mutilate v. + -iō -ion suffix1. Compare mutilating n.
1. Scots Law. The act or process of disabling or maiming a person by wounding a limb or organ. Now historical.In early use sometimes distinguished from demembration (or complete amputation) as comprising any injury to a limb or organ whether or not the affected part is actually severed from the body. Both crimes are now subsumed under the general heading of assault.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > unlawful violence
mayhem1447
forcea1481
mutilation1517
actual bodily harm1837
grievous bodily harm1861
ABH1975
1517 in W. C. Dickinson Sheriff Court Bk. Fife (1928) 83 To wnderly the law for the mutilacione of Thomas Inglis.
1525 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 113 The cruell slauchteris, mutilatiounis, and hurts doyne amang thame under silence of nycht, be thair neychbours about.
1546 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 230 Tuching the hurting and bluid draving of the said Amrouse Tailzeour, and mutilation of him of his left hand.
1555 in R. Renwick Extracts Rec. Stirling (1887) I. 65 Thai wer acquyt..of mutilatioun of the lard of Cragingelt.
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem Treat. 134 Mutilation and demembration is punished as slauchter.
1699 Sir A. Seton (title) A Treatise of mutilation and demembration and their punishments.
1797 Encycl. Brit. IX. 720/2 Mutilation, or the disabling of a member, is punished at the discretion of the judge [in the Law of Scotland].
1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 666 Mutilation, is the crime of disabling or wounding another in his members. It is punishable arbitrarily. But mutilation is usually considered as an aggravation of assault, and in that case the punishment generally awarded is transportation.
1995 D. M. Walker Legal Hist. Scotl. III. xiv. 486 Mutilation was wounding and the causing of serious bodily harm. It had been made a statutory crime in 1384.
2.
a. More generally: the action of mutilating a person or animal; the severing or maiming of a limb or bodily organ; an instance of this. Also: the fact or condition of being mutilated or maimed.See also self-mutilation n. at self- prefix 6.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [noun] > action of
dismemberingc1386
mutilating1562
laming1583
dismembration1597
mutilation1611
dismemberment1815
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [noun] > condition
mutilateness1599
maimedness1607
mutilation1611
mutilousness1668
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Troncation, a truncation, trunking, mutilation, cutting off.
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Mutilation, a mayming.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. ii. 342 We observe that mutilations are not transmitted from father unto son; the blind begetting such as can see [etc.] . View more context for this quotation
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvii. 160 Mutilation of a limbe, [is a] greater [Crime], than the spoyling a man of his goods.
a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) X. 239 When a man is in imminent danger of the mutilation of a leg or an arm.
1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 370 Some punishments..occasion a mutilation or dismembring, by cutting off the hand or ears.
1783 F. G. Waldron Contin. Ben Jonson's Sad Shepherd Pref. I will..observe that although part of the celebrated Venus de Medicis is said to be of (comparatively) modern workmanship..it now appears without mutilation.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 569 Many of them were also sentenced to mutilation. On a single day the hangman of Edinburgh cut off the ears of thirty-five prisoners.
1883 J. R. Green Conq. Eng. v. 227 The laws against mutilation of cattle.
1920 19th Cent. Sept. 399 This mutilation was due to an accident which had happened to him while he was a subbotnik.
1964 A. Swinson Six Minutes to Sunset ix. 164 Whose kinsmen in Malabar had suffered indescribable tortures and mutilations from the Moplahs.
1994 Time 21 Mar. 45/3 About 25 countries in Africa engage in mutilation: an estimated 98% of women are ‘circumcised’ in Djibouti and Somalia.
b. Castration. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > [noun] > castration
libbing1396
geldinga1398
castrationc1420
eviration1603
eunuchism1620
emasculation1623
evirating1657
mutilation1728
orchotomy1753
eunuchry1864
orchidectomy1870
asexualization1888
orchidotomy1892
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Mutilation is sometimes understood in a more immediate manner for Castration.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Mutilation,..denotes the retrenchment of a human limb or member, and particularly of the male organs of generation.
1850 J. Ogilvie Imperial Dict. Mutilation,..denotes the retrenchment of a human limb or member, and particularly of the male organs of generation.]
3. The action of making something, esp. a book or text, imperfect by excision or destruction of one or more of its parts; an instance of this.
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society > communication > printing > post-printing processes > [noun] > cutting or destroying part of book
mutilation1638
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun] > damaging or injuring > by cutting or removing something
truncation1579
mutilation1638
mutilating1677
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 117 Making the ships their object (after a great mutilation of shrowds and masts) they sunk the..Fleet.
1656 in J. A. Clyde Hope's Major Practicks (1937) I. 153 The faults of ane charter ar: Io, the changeing and mutilation of the letters.
1659 J. Pearson Expos. Apostles Creed ii. 136 All the originall letters in the name Hoseah are preserved in that of Joshua:..this alteration was not made by..diminution or mutilation; but by addition.
1829 D. W. Jerrold Bride of Ludgate 3 This mutilation of his scenes the playwright must submit to.
1867 C. Dickens Let. 1 Jan. (1999) XI. 292 I have no more power to stop that mutilation of my books, than you have.
1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. iv. 55 Another consequence of the same difference of accent is the greater mutilation of the radical part of the word in the Romanic languages..than in the Germanic.
1927 A. H. McNeile Introd. New Test. 56 A mutilation in the middle of Mark has been suggested as an explanation of St. Luke's ‘great omission’.
1988 M. Spark Far Cry from Kensington vi. 80 She put angry authors' letters about the mutilation of their books under the cushion of her chair to deal with later.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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