See Also: maim(medicine)
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MAIM, pleadings(law)

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maim noun1. Long arch. ME.
[Old French mayhem, mahaing, main(e, from mahaignier, mayner: see MAIM verb. Cf. MAYHEM.]
Orig., a serious loss or permanent bodily hurt or disfigurement. Later, loss or permanent disablement of a limb etc.; an injury to the body causing this; a mutilation. Also fig., the loss of an essential part, a grave defect or blemish.
T. Fuller They are so eminent..that their omission would make a maim in history. G. Bancroft A crowd gathered round the scaffold when Prynne and Bastwick and Burton were to suffer maim. T. H. White Oh, defend us from death and horrible maims.