释义 |
fusillation rare.|fjuːzɪˈleɪʃən| [n. of action f. F. fusiller to shoot: see fusillade n. and -ation.] Capital punishment by shooting.
1859Sala Gas-light & D. vii. 83 The black cutty [pipe]..was with him when under sentence of fusillation for sketching a droschky in the Nevski Perspective. |