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‖ noyade, n.|nwajad|
[F., f. noyer:—L. necāre to put to death (in late L., to drown).]
The execution of persons by drowning, as practised by Carrier at Nantes in 1794. Also transf. and fig.
1822Blackw. Mag. XII. 13 They choked their rivers with their noyades. 1835Macaulay Ess., Mackintosh's Hist. Revol. (1897) 320 Then came..revolutionary tribunals, guillotinades, noyades, fusillades. 1878Seeley Stein I. 163 No guillotine was to be set up..; the Oder, Spree and Weichsel were to see no noyades.
transf.1819J. Adams Lett. Wks. 1850 II. 334 note, The Mohawks, who were concerned in the noyade of the tea in Boston harbor. 1899E. Wharton Greater Inclination iv. 126 He and she..were bound together in a noyade of passion that left them resisting yet clinging as they went down. 1955Auden Shield of Achilles iii. 76 Some autumn night of delations and noyades.
Hence noyade v., to put to death by drowning; also noyading vbl. n.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. v. vi, Sounds of fusillading and noyading. 1839― Chartism v. 141 Lyons fusilladings, Nantes noyadings. 1844T. Parker in Weiss Life & Corr. I. 225 The wretched Terrorists..guillotined, and noyaded, and mitrailled, I know not how many. |