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Webster 1913 Edition


Mutilation

Muˊti-la′tion

,
Noun.
[L.
mutilatio
: cf. F.
mutilation
.]
The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part.

Webster 1828 Edition


Mutilation

MUTILA'TION

,
Noun.
[L. mutilatio.] The act of mutilating; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part.
1.
Mutilation is a term of very general import,applied to bodies, to statues, to buildings and to writings; but appropriately, it denotes the retrenchment of a human limb or member, and particularly of the male organs of generation.

Definition 2024


mutilation

mutilation

English

Noun

mutilation (countable and uncountable, plural mutilations)

  1. The act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated.

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French

Etymology

From Latin mutilatio.

Noun

mutilation f (plural mutilations)

  1. mutilation