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demembration (iou)



demembration noun. obsolete exc. Hist. L16.
[medieval Latin demembratio(n-), from demembrat- pa. ppl stem of demembrare var. of dismembrare dismember: see DISMEMBRATION, -ATION.]
Chiefly Scots Law. The cutting off of a limb; dismemberment.