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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.
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.