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embowel
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em·bow·el  (m-boul)
tr.v. em·bow·eled or em·bow·elled, em·bow·el·ing or em·bow·el·ling, em·bow·els
1. To disembowel.
2. Obsolete To enclose.
[Obsolete French emboueler, alteration of Old French esbouler : es-, out of (from Latin ex-; see ex-) + Old French boeler (from boel, bouele, entrails; see bowel). Sense 2 : en- + bowel.]
embowel [ɪmˈbaʊəl]
vb Obsolete
1. to bury or embed deeply
2. another word for disembowel
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As Richmond advances toward the great battle at Bosworth, he emphasizes the destructive aspects of Richard III's leadership, comparing the king to a "wretched, bloody, and usurping boar" who "swills your warm blood like wash, and makes his trough/In your embowelled bosoms" (188).
Two bad kings and two bad presidents by Abbott, Philip / Presidential Studies Quarterly
Dobell's eponymous hero, Balder, describes his exploration of Nature: The red haste Of her quick heart, and of her heaving breast The cavernous and windy mysteries, (17) and discusses the poet's soul in these terms: That underflow and subterrene Wherein the future heaves, and time to come Like an embowelled earthquake yet unbelched Disturbs our world, is mine.
Swinburne's spasms: Poems and Ballads and the 'Spasmodic School' by Blair, Kirstie / Yearbook of English Studies
The old poets, he writes, bending some lines from Burke, had "warm hearts of flesh and blood beating in their bosoms and were not embowelled of their natural entrails, and stuffed with paltry blurred sheets of paper.
Hazlitt & Wordsworth: the language of poetry by Greenberg, Martin / New Criterion
 
 
 
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