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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Mutilat, v. Also: mutelat. P.t. mutil(l)at, mutulat(e, muitillet. P.p. Mutilat; also mittelatted. [e.m.E. mutulate (1534), mutilate (1616), L. mutilāt- p.p. stem of mutilāre (cf. Mutil(l)ing vbl. n.).]

1. tr. To mutilate or maim (a person). Also absol.To deprive (a person) of the use of a limb or other principal bodily organ, either by wounding or by cutting off the limb; to disable or to ‘dismember’.pres. t. Skene Reg. Maj. ii. 49 b (= 1384 Statut. Robt. II in 14.. Acts I. 186/2).
Gif ane man mutilats ane other [L. Si aliquis aliquem mutilaverit] or wounds or beates him be forthocht felonie … sic forme … of proces salbe ledde … as is ordained agans ane manslayerabsol. 1582 Declar. Causis 27.
& in cais of thair refuse to be tane, to rais fire … sla or mutelatp.t. (a) 1533 Boece xiii. xi. 523 b.
He … mutulate thare sonnys c 1570 Wemyss Chart. 201.
And thair mutulat me(b) 1572–3 Reg. Privy C. II. 205.
Stevin Urde … straik the said Jonet upoun hir schulder blaid with the kavill of ane mylne and mutilat hir of hir left arme and schulder 1600 Ib. VI. 94.
[They] mutilat him in the ker hand of tua fingeris c1650 Spalding I. 75.
[They] slew Robert and Niniane Dunbaris and mutillat James Dumbar(c) c 1580 Maxwell Mem. II. 146.
They laimit ane pert of thame and muitillett ane wther pairtp.p. 1662 Sc. N. & Q. 2 Ser. II. 64.
He wes thus mittelatted as your lordship maye perceave, and did get divers uther woundes

b. To maim (a limb). 1629 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. III. 41.
They disjoynted and mutilat both her armes and made the sinewes to loupe asunder

2. To mutilate, destroy part of (a book etc.), by tearing or cutting out leaves. a1650 Row 65.
Here also the assemblie book wants two leaves. The maters being relating to bishops, it is easie to espy who did mutilat the register