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manslayer|ˈmænsleɪə(r)|
Forms: see slayer; also 5 monsle(e)r.
One who kills a man; a homicide; occas. one who commits manslaughter.
a1300Cursor M. 16441 Þe man-slaer, he barabas. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxx. (Theodera) 258 Sa ma þu þe sauf fra hel quhare man-slaare sal ay duel. c1425Audelay XI Pains of Hell 37 in O.E. Misc. 211 Þese were proud men,..Extortioners, monslers, robbid mone one. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 238 b, He that hateth his brother is a man⁓sleer. 1611Bible Num. xxxv. 12. 1635 Visct. Wentworth in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. III. 286 They that made me the manslayer of the E. of St. Albans, will impute my Lo. Mountnorris unto me for willfull and plaine murther. 1741Richardson Pamela II. 281 All your Airs breathe as strongly of the Manslayer, as of the Libertine. 1835Thirlwall Greece I. vi. 171 That the manslayer withdrew into a foreign land and did not return to his country, till [etc.].
†b. An executioner. Obs. rare—1.
c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 388 Þe kyng..sente for a man-sleere [Mark vi. 27].
So † ˈmanslaȝe Early ME. [OE. slaᵹa slayer].
c1000ælfric Deut. v. 17 Ne beo þu manslaᵹa. c1175Lamb. Hom. 53 Ah þah heo beoð..monslaȝen for heo slaȝeð heore aȝene saule. a1225St Marher. 11 Ichabbe isehen þene þurs of helle..ant te monslahe islein. |