What the precise meaning of such mutilations may be, still remains very obscure; but they seem in some cases to be directly associated with the conception of death and resurrection.
The numerous mutilations of the words the child undertakes to speak are not all to be traced to defect of articulation.
Of these mutilations some are, even to his nearest relatives who are in company with the child every day, unintelligible or only with great pains to be unriddled.
These cases form the minority, and are striking in the midst of the manifold mutilations which now constitute the child's speech.
Bishops’ courts that in them no mutilations were inflicted.
The mutilations or distortions of the human body through various rites or social customs also fails to yield any convincing examples.
At any rate, it cannot but be admitted that injuries and mutilations which cause disease, are occasionally inherited.
In some cases mutilations have been practised for many generations, without any inherited result.
The words of Pope Pius XII, that mutilations are permissible when required "to avoid.
Mutilations which frustrate the power of procreation in men and women are called sterilization.
It may be said without hesitation that mutilations are not heritable, no matter how many generations undergo them.
The case in regard to mutilations is particularly clear cut and leaves little room for doubt.
Similar means were employed under both empires to check and discourage rebellion--mutilations and executions of chiefs, pillage of the rebellious region, and wholesale deportation of its population.
The priests observed fasts among themselves, attended with penance, scarifications, and mutilations sometimes so severe as to result fatally.
Some of their mutilations were ghastly and my heart sickened to look at them, but they would not appear to receive any pain from them.
It is probable that there is some basis of fact for the statement that mutilations are in rare instances practiced among some tribes.
Pained by often coming on skeletons in trees and the stench of half-consumed remains in the brush, and shocked by the frequent mutilations visible, I have reasoned with the poor savages.
They can hardly be compared to the same number of the larger animals mutilated by breeders and farmers: for these mutilations may be inflicted, and are inflicted, without an anaesthetic.
Taking the empirical data in detail, it would appear first that the effects of single mutilations are not inherited.
The effects of long-continued mutilations are not inherited, but Darwin cites as a possible case the Mahommedans of Celebes, in whom the prepuce is very small.
The effects of injuries or mutilations are occasionally inherited; and we shall see in a future chapter that the long-continued use and disuse of parts produces an inherited effect.
Some mutilations have been practised for a vast number of generations without any inherited result.
How long will it be before we shall learn that for every wound which betrays itself to the sight by a scar, there are a thousand unseen mutilations that cripple, each of them, some one or more of our highest faculties?
The legends of the Buddhists show that cruel mutilations were not uncommon.
The punishment of death is perhaps less frequently imposed than elsewhere in the East, but mutilations are only the more common, and at times they are employed to aggravate the sentence of death, which is inflicted by beheading and impalement.
A poor cook was seized and beaten, his ears were cut off, his mouth and cheeks gashed with a sword and other unspeakable mutilations inflicted.
If it were proved that mutilations are inherited, this would not necessarily show that normal cell-modifications are transmissible.
Nor do I think that mutilations are likely to afford the right sort of evidence one way or the other.
Attempts have been made to furnish such evidence by showing that certain mutilations have been inherited.
I repeat, we must not look to mutilations for evidence for or against the supposition that acquired characters are inherited.
English King's face; and it was only by these mutilations that the statue of Henry VI.
In most instances these ill-advised mutilations are followed by lifelong weakness and suffering, which far outweigh the temporary pains formerly endured when unavoidable operations were performed without the use of anesthesia.
Thousands of men and women operated upon for some local ailment which could have been cured easily by natural methods of treatment are condemned by these inexcusable mutilationsto lifelong suffering.
In some cases mutilations have been practised for a vast number of generations without any inherited result.
Nevertheless it appears, from the facts given in the twelfth chapter, that in some rare cases mutilations have been inherited, but in most of these the mutilated surface became diseased.
In some cases the effects of injuries or mutilations apparently are inherited; and we shall see in a future chapter that the effects of the long-continued use and disuse of parts are certainly inherited.
There is ample evidence thatmutilations of this sort were unknown among the native savages.
The era of murders and mutilations has, as we hope, passed by, but the country is sunk into a state of cowed and hopeless slavery.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mutilations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
