Dismember \Dis*mem"ber\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dismembered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dismembering}.] [OF. desmembrer, F. d['e]membrer; pref. des- (L. dis) + OF. & F. membre limb. See {Member}.] 1. To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.
Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. --Pope.
A society lacerated and dismembered. --Gladstone.
By whose hands the blow should be struck which would dismember that once mighty empire. --Buckle.
2. To deprive of membership. [Obs.]
They were dismembered by vote of the house. --R. North.
Syn: To disjoint; dislocate; dilacerate; mutilate; divide; sever.
The ethnic and political divisions are part of a larger tapestry of conflict that threatens to dismember this diverse nation that once was held together by the dominating presence of Josip Broz Tito, who died in 1980.
The Dec. 2 election campaign has shaped much of the debate over German unification and has helped to dismember the once-broad coalition government put together by de Maiziere.
In several letters to shareholders since March, Gillette Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Colman Mockler Jr. claimed Coniston plans to sell or dismember the Boston-based company.
Almost everyone agrees that Japanese managements will continue to abhor hostile takeovers and, unlike Westerners, exhibit little desire to buy and then dismember a company.
The ministry said the "root cause of hunger in northern Ethiopia" is a civil war "to dismember the country."
Many of us at the "New Postal Service," a phrase that Mr. Bovard seems to find hard to swallow, would argue that threats by management to dismember our organization would not serve management, labor nor our customers.
Which is not to say that TV has some unique power to dismember families.
Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee's subcommittee on securities, said he doesn't want to "dismember" the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which currently oversees stock-index futures.
Constanzo would allow members to dismember the corpse.
Mr. Araskog writes that every chief executive from Harry Gray of United Technologies Corp. to Walter Wriston of Citicorp, Martin Davis of Gulf & Western Corp., and Alexander Haig had been approached by raiders to help take over and dismember ITT.
In several reports mailed to shareholders since March, Mockler claimed Coniston plans to sell or dismember the company.
Some, such as that of Santa Cruz, have ambitions to expand into generation - prohibited under the new law. Other criticisms concern the World Bank-designed plan to dismember an already tiny generation system into three.