limbmealとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English lymmele, limmel, from 古期英語 limmǣlum (“limbmeal, limb by limb”); equivalent to limb +‎ -meal.

副詞

limbmeal (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Into pieces; limb from limb.
   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv]:

     O, that I had her here, to tear her limb-meal!