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mutilation

mˌjutəˈleɪʃən
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Sheet depicting the murder of the brothers Johan and Cornelis de Witt and the mutilation of their bodies, 20 August 1672. Two storks in the air. Below the three-column presentation, a long text describing the events and a verse justifying the murders.
Sheet depicting the murder of the brothers Johan and Cornelis de Witt and the mutilation of their bodies, 20 August 1672. Two storks in the air. Below the three-column presentation, a long text describing the events and a verse justifying the murders.
  1. (n) mutilation
    an injury that causes disfigurement or that deprives you of a limb or other important body part
Illustrations
Sheet with 20 images about an old mutilated fox, who tells a story to his grandchildren. A caption below each image. Numbered top right: No 62.
Sheet with 20 images about an old mutilated fox, who tells a story to his grandchildren. A caption below each image. Numbered top right: No 62.
Night scene of the mutilated bodies of Johan and Cornelis de Witt, hanging from the seesaw, against a background of the trees near the Vijverberg, 20 August 1672. In the right foreground, two figures with a burning torch. Below the performance is a verse of eight lines against the De Witt brothers.
Night scene of the mutilated bodies of Johan and Cornelis de Witt, hanging from the seesaw, against a background of the trees near the Vijverberg, 20 August 1672. In the right foreground, two figures with a burning torch. Below the performance is a verse of eight lines against the De Witt brothers.
Night scene of the mutilated bodies of Johan and Cornelis de Witt, hanging from the seesaw on the Groene Zoodje in The Hague, 20 August 1672. In the foreground right, a figure with a burning torch.
Night scene of the mutilated bodies of Johan and Cornelis de Witt, hanging from the seesaw on the Groene Zoodje in The Hague, 20 August 1672. In the foreground right, a figure with a burning torch.
The mutilated bodies of Johan de Witt and Cornelis de Witt, hung on the seesaw in the Groene Zoodje on the Vijverberg in The Hague, 20 August 1672. In the front right a man with a torch.
The corpses of the de Witt brothers, hung on the Groene Zoodje on the Vijverberg in The Hague, 1672
The mutilated bodies of Johan and Cornelis de Witt hanging from a pole. On the right a man with a torch watching the corpses. Under an eight-line verse in Dutch.
The mutilated bodies of Johan and Cornelis de Witt hanging from a pole. On the right a man with a torch watching the corpses. Under an eight-line verse in Dutch.
Mutilation of the body of Franceso Baza who, together with Salcedo, wanted to murder the Prince of Orange and the Duke of Anjou, July 31, 1582. Basa is imprisoned and confesses Nicolas Salcedo's involvement in the plot. He then commits suicide in his cell, his body is dragged through the streets of Bruges and mutilated on the scaffold. With caption of 4 lines in Dutch and 4 lines in French. Unnumbered. Printed on the back with text in Latin.
Mutilation of the body of Franceso Baza who, together with Salcedo, wanted to murder the Prince of Orange and the Duke of Anjou, July 31, 1582. Basa is imprisoned and confesses Nicolas Salcedo's involvement in the plot. He then commits suicide in his cell, his body is dragged through the streets of Bruges and mutilated on the scaffold. With caption of 4 lines in Dutch and 4 lines in French. Unnumbered. Printed on the back with text in Latin.
Sheet with 21 small scenes of the atrocities, torture and mutilations committed in Ireland by the Catholics against the Protestants, January 1642. Each scene is identified by a number and one or more letters. The print comes with a text sheet.
Sheet with 21 small scenes of the atrocities, torture and mutilations committed in Ireland by the Catholics against the Protestants, January 1642. Each scene is identified by a number and one or more letters. The print comes with a text sheet.
The death and mutilation of the De Witt brothers, 20 August 1672. Fragment of the large print about the De Witt brothers: Witten Wonder Spiegel (1675).
The death and mutilation of the De Witt brothers, 20 August 1672. Fragment of the large print about the De Witt brothers: Witten Wonder Spiegel (1675).
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Mutilation
    The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) mutilation
    The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated; deprivation of a necessary or important part, as a limb.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (ns) Mutilation
    act of mutilating: deprivation of a limb or essential part
Quotations
Charles Lamb
Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
Charles Lamb
Simone Weil
Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
Simone Weil
Rabindranath Tagore
No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
Rabindranath Tagore
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L. mutilatio,: cf. F. mutilation,

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary L. mutilāre—mutilus—Gr. mutilos, mitulos, curtailed.

Usage in the news

Angeline Pirira Mwafulirwa says her daughters could be subjected to genital mutilation in Malawi. advocate.com

Genital Mutilation and Shock Art. theatlantic.com

No suspects in teen's 1986 mutilation , murder. dispatch.com

Jury convicts Houston mom in baby- mutilation case. chron.com

Prosecutors say parents argued before mutilation . chron.com

Effort in Egypt fights against mutilating girls. msnbc.msn.com

A BRITISHER'S VIEW: Day of self- mutilation unmasks Muslim mindset. timesledger.com

As a pediatrician, Dr Meg Meeker thought she had seen it all: eating disorders, sexual abuse, self-mutilation. osv.com

Dont Fold, Spindle or Mutilate. eweek.com

Images of mutilated bodies in Nuevo Laredo have surfaced . pro8news.com

Morse goes to Oxford University to unravel the mystery of a missing college professor and a mutilated corpse floating in a nearby canal. eta.org

Mutilating Africa's Daughters: Laws Unenforced , Practices Unchanged. nytimes.com

The mutilated body of a woman was found in a vacant lot in Queens yesterday afternoon after a passer-by stumbled upon it, the authorities said. nytimes.com

The stigma of rape and mutilation by soldiers. amny.com

Dolphins Found Shot, Mutilated in Gulf of Mexico (Photo Credit: Tom Brakefield/Stockbyte). vel.com

Usage in scientific papers

The ma jor advantage of lattice QCD calculations is that the theory can be mutilated in a controllable way, so the physical mechanism underlying a process can be studied.
Meson and Baryon Spectroscopy on a Lattice

The Kentucky group [287] have introduced valence QCD, a mutilated version of lattice QCD, that omits “Z” graphs from the formalism.
Meson and Baryon Spectroscopy on a Lattice

For example, in the spirit of theory mutilation, ideally only one piece of physics must be removed at one time.
Meson and Baryon Spectroscopy on a Lattice

Ridgelets and the representation of mutilated Sobolev functions.
Networks of Polynomial Pieces with Application to the Analysis of Point Clouds and Images

The most remarkable property of the method is that it does not mutilate the theory under investigation: The effective field theory framework is no more than an efficient machinery, which allows one to work out the modified Taylor series, referred to above.
Foundations and Scope of Chiral Perturbation Theory

Usage in literature

After riding about a mile, we came upon the body of the dead man, stretched upon the green grass, naked, scalped, and terribly mutilated. "The Young Trail Hunters" by Samuel Woodworth Cozzens

Sometimes the face is entirely mutilated. "Paris under the Commune" by John Leighton

The stronger faculties, if not extinguished, become mutilated. "Essays in Rebellion" by Henry W. Nevinson

Human skeletons, in short, in every variety of mutilation. "The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate" by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

There is not now any permanent mutilation of the person practiced as a mourning ceremony by them. "A further contribution to the study of the mortuary customs of the North American Indians" by H. C. Yarrow

He paused a moment beside the mutilated body; put away his knife, drew the cloth over the corpse, and then turned toward his room. "The Crime of the French Café and Other Stories" by Nicholas Carter

His body was mutilated. "A Social History of The American Negro" by Benjamin Brawley

Mutilation of the Hand. "Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1." by J Lort Stokes

In the churchyard is a mutilated cross. "Somerset" by G.W. Wade and J.H. Wade

The figure is much mutilated; but the style of the canopy-work over the head indicates that it is not of great antiquity. "Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2)" by Dawson Turner

Usage in poetry
Go, seek his fragments on the moor and
wash them in the evening dew,
And from their pieces make anew thy mutilated
paramour!
"The Sphinx" by Oscar Wilde Author object (520)
There rose a fair but faded one,
Who oft had cheered them with her song;
She waved a mutilated arm,
And silence held the listening throng.
"The Meeting Of The Dryads" by Oliver Wendell Holmes Author object (518)
"And mutilate us with your walking-stick!--
We will not suffer tamely what you do,
And warn you at your peril,--for we'll sick
Our bumblebees on you!"
"A Country Pathway" by James Whitcomb Riley Author object (339)
On thy mutilated face
It is difficult to trace
All that once was graven here;
But at least two words are clear,--
Reading still, as all agree,
"Conjugi Carissimae."
"Conjugi Carissimae" by John Lawson Stoddard
There seats, which beauty once enthroned,
In tattered damask stand;
In gray neglect a faun extends
A mutilated hand;
And silence makes the festal board
Mute as the stringless harpsichord.
"Villa Pliniana" by John Lawson Stoddard
Old plant of Asia - Mutilated vine
Holding earth's leaping sap
In every stem and shoot
That lopped off, sprouts again - Why should you seek a plateau walled about,
Whose garden is the world?
"Palestine" by Lola Ridge Author object (443)