v. [f. BE- 2 + MANGLE v.] trans. To cut about, hack, mangle. Hence Bemangled ppl. a.
1553–87. Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 71/1. [He was] so scotched and bemangled with the shards of sharpe and cutting shels.
1601. R. Yarington, Two Lament. Traj., I. i. in Bullen, O. Pl., IV. So foule a deede, Thus to bemangle a distressed youth.
1648. Jos. Beaumont, Psyche, IX. lxiv. (J.). Those bemangled limbs.
