vbl. sb. [f. EMBOWEL v. + -ING1.] = DISEMBOWELLING.
1725. Swift, Drapier’s Lett., Wks. 1755, V. II. 79. Sentence of death with all the circumstances of hanging, beheading, quartering, embowelling, and the like.
1813. Sir S. Romilly, in Examiner, 21 Feb., 117/2. The dreadful infliction of embowelling was at present left to the discretion of the executioner.
† b. nonce-use.
1654. Gayton, Pleasant Notes on Don Quixot, 91. These exenterations, embowellings, and disgorgings, made Sancho’s appetite like a swine.
