All 4 Uses of
dismember
in
Moby Dick
- The prophecy was that I should be dismembered; and—Aye!†
Chpt 37-39
- I now prophesy that I will dismember my dismemberer.†
Chpt 37-39
- But though similar disasters, however little bruited ashore, were by no means unusual in the fishery; yet, in most instances, such seemed the White Whale's infernal aforethought of ferocity, that every dismembering or death that he caused, was not wholly regarded as having been inflicted by an unintelligent agent.†
Chpt 40-42
- It is not probable that this monomania in him took its instant rise at the precise time of his bodily dismemberment.†
Chpt 40-42 *
Definition:
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(dismember) to cut or pull off limbs or other parts of a body
or:
to divide into pieces -- especially destructively