verb
definition
To physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb.
definition
To destroy beyond recognition.
definition
To render imperfect or defective.
adjective
definition
Having undergone mutilation
Examples of mutilated in a Sentence
This work is mutilated and without beginning or end.
During the sack of Brescia in 1512, he was horribly mutilated by some French soldiers.
Hyrcanus, who was Antigonus' only rival, was mutilated and carried to Parthia.
It explains why the Commonitorium has reached us only in a mutilated form.
D ends at 1079 and is certainly mutilated.
Two of his works have been preserved in a more or less mutilated condition.
Jagiellonic Out of the ancient Piast kingdom, mutilated by the Period, loss of Silesia and the Baltic shore, arose a republic 1386-1572.
Obtaining an unbound copy of the De corpore, he saw by the mutilated appearance of the sheets that Hobbes had repeatedly altered his demonstrations before he issued them at last in their actual form, grotesque as it was, rather than delay the book longer.
The crown of John is shown on his effigy at Worcester, though unfortunately it is rather badly mutilated.
C extends to 1066, where it ends abruptly, and probably mutilated.
There and in several other places he took a great number of prisoners, whom he mutilated.
The Li ki, or Books of Rites and Ancient Ceremonies and of Institutions, chiefly of the Chow dynasty, have come down to us in a sadly mutilated condition.
Thus, in the Hesiodic account of her birth, she is represented as sprung from the foam which gathered round the mutilated member of Uranus, and her name has been explained by reference to this.
Exquisite ornament is seen in the triforium arcade, and between some of the arches in the transept are figures, especially finely carved, though much mutilated, known as the censing angels.
It was put down with the same decisive energy that William had shown in 1088, and this time he was merciless; he blinded and mutilated William of Ets, shut up Mowbray of Northumberland for life in a monastery, and hanged many men of lesser rank.
At the emperor's request he remained to pilot the mutilated budget through the House; but on the 14th of July 1909 the acceptance of his resignation was announced.
They are abridgments made in Norway by Icelanders for their Norwegian patrons, the Life of St Olaf alone being preserved intact, for the great interest of the Norwegians lay in him, but all the other Kings' Lives being more or less mutilated, so that they cannot be trusted for historic purposes; nor do they give a fair idea of Snorri's style.
Winckler may be right in restoring a mutilated passage in the annals of this king so as to make it mean that Babylon owed its name to Sargon, who made it the capital of his empire.
On the 15th of July 1895 he was attacked and barbarously mutilated by a band of Macedonian assassins in the streets of Sofia, and succumbed to his injuries three days later.
It was resolved in 1585 to remove her remains to Avila, where she was born, the sisters at Alva being consoled by permission to retain the mutilated arm.
Or we may take the opposite view, and regard the story of Osiris and his war with Seth (who shut him up in a box and mutilated him) as a dualistic myth, originally on the level of the battle betweenaGaunab andTsui-Goab, or between Tagar and Suqe.
He himself perished in the fight, his mutilated body being discovered some days afterwards.
This emeute provoked severe reprisals, and the partisans of the images were mutilated and killed, or beaten and exiled.
At least 100 female camp followers were murdered or mutilated by battle-crazed Roundheads.
How could a God who smiled at those mutilated corpses in Omagh be a loving God?
In the morning they found her mutilated corpse in a ditch with her breasts cut off.
The old church, which was much larger, contained the mutilated effigy of a man in armor, with his sword sheathed.
That animals are deliberately poisoned, surgically mutilated, deprived of food and water is bad enough.
This cannot have been a pleasant task, for some of the bodies were terribly mutilated.
A body that had been too badly mutilated for positive identification had been dragged out of the river Avon.
Our other messmate suffered still more than the Swede; he was sadly mutilated about the legs and thighs with splinters.
This included animals which had been blinded, severely mutilated, or with open wounds.
He didn't just kill them, he mutilated them, extracting certain organs with surgical precision.
Within are stone benches on either side, and a mutilated stoup.
Villages were sacked, and burnt, men,, women and anc ldren mutilated, tortured or roasted alive, and women outraged.
To France and to the world Gramont was responsible for the policy which put his country definitely into the wrong in the eyes of Europe, and enabled Bismarck to administer to her the "slap in the face" (sou let) - as Gramont called it in the Chamber - by means of the mutilated "Ems telegram," which was the immediate cause of the French declaration of war on the 15th.
The treasures he brought to light at Reichenau, Weingarten, and above all St Gall, restored many lost masterpieces of Latin literature, and supplied students with the texts of authors whose works had hitherto been accessible only in mutilated copies.
For lawful ordination in the Roman Church, a man must be confirmed, tonsured, in possession of all orders lower than that which he proposes to receive, of legitimate birth, not a slave or notably mutilated, of good life and competent knowledge.
Andre's sombre rage against the course of events found vent in the line on the Maenads who mutilated the king's Swiss Guard, and in the Ode d Charlotte Corday congratulating France that "Un scelerat de moins rampe dans cette fange."
The Austrian archduke John had been appointed regent, pending the election of an emperor; and the political leaders could neither break loose from the tradition of Austrian hegemony, nor reconcile themselves with the idea of a mutilated Germany, till it was too late, and Austria was once more in a position to re-establish the system devised by her diplomacy at the congress of Vienna.
He slew his inoffensive brother-in-law with his own hand, and tortured and mutilated the much-loved Marius Gratidianus.
There are three badly mutilated sepulchral monuments dating from the first twenty years of the fourteenth century.
She had been strangled with a scarf and her naked body sexually mutilated.
When they found the mutilated carcasses, many thought that they resembled animals attacked by wolves, yet locals knew that there were no wolves in the vicinity.
In each telling, Bloody Mary appears in the mirror with disastrous results from a scratched and mutilated face to instant insanity.
Yes, I've sinned as I'm sure you know but I never ever harmed any young lady the way poor Annie was mutilated.
Dusty considered her before gazing back at the mutilated creature on top of the stainless steel lab counter.
This was followed by a revolt of his nephew, Bernard, king of Italy; but the rising was easily suppressed, and Bernard was mutilated and killed.
Cicero delivered four speeches against the bill, of which three are still extant, although the first is mutilated at the beginning.
They can be traced by cullet heaps and broken-down furnaces, and by their names, often mutilated, recorded in parish registers.