mayheming

Verb

mayhem (third-person singular simple present mayhems, present participle mayheming, simple past and past participle mayhemed)

1. (archaic, transitive) To commit the criminal offence of mayhem (noun sense 1) on (someone); to maim.
   • It is a gentle holineſſe […] to riſe vp in routes and fight againſt chriſten men, and deſtroy […] many a good religious houſe, ſpoyled, meyhemed, ⁊ ſlaine many a good vertuous man, robbed, polluted, and pulled downe manye a goodly church of Chriſt.1528, Thomas More, “A Dialogue Concernynge Heresyes & Matters of Religion […]. Chapter XIV.”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London...
2. (archaic, figuratively, transitive) To violently inflict injury on (someone); to injure, to wound.
   • The law had regarded them [black people] as mere chattels; and it had passed into a proverb in the nation, that they had "no rights which white men were bound to respect." To buy, to sell, to task, to whip, to mayhem this race at will, had been from immemorial days a right which the now subjugated...1879, [Albion Winegar Tourgée], “‘Light Shineth in Darkness’”, in A Fool‘s Errand. […], New York, N.Y.: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, →OCLC, page 287

   Synonyms:

   abuse, annoy, bewound, damage, damnify, dere, do damage to, do for, do ill, do violence to

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