disentrayle

disentrayle

(ˌdɪsɪnˈtreɪl)
vb (tr)
archaic to pass out as if from the entrails
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ix, when Artegall and Talus destroy Malengin, invariably perceived as an Irish rebel by critics.(15) When Byrchensa describes the Irish rebels as snakes, he comments: 'There did these snakes roule round their tales, a while, / Yet at the last were forced to cast their skinnes', possibly alluding to the destruction of Malengin which occurs when he transforms himself into a snake and Talus 'all his bones, as small as sandy grayle, / He broke, and did his bowels disentrayle' (Faerie Queene, V.
An allusion to Spenser's Irish writings: Matthew Lownes and Ralph Byrchensa's A Discourse occasioned upon the late defeat, given to the Arch-rebels, Tyrone and Odonnell (1602)
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