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名詞

dismemberment (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 dismemberments)

1. (countable) The act of dismembering.
   • 1911, R. Austin Freeman, chapter 13, in The Vanishing Man:

     The skill is shown by the neat way in which the dismemberment has been carried out. The parts have not been rudely hacked asunder, but have been separated at the joints.

   • 1986, Lewis Binford et al., "Zhoukoudian: A Closer Look," Current Anthropology, vol. 27, no. 5., p. 460,

     The metapodials appear to have been marked during dismemberment from the lower limbs.

2. (uncountable) The state or condition of being dismembered.
   • 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Tailors”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], OCLC 614372740, book third, page 201:

     [I]s not the fair fabric of Society itself, with all its royal mantles and pontifical stoles, whereby, from nakedness and dismemberment, we are organised into Polities, into nations, and a whole coöperating Mankind, the creation, as has here been often irrefragably evinced, of the Tailor alone?