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behead, v.|bɪˈhɛd|
Forms: 1 behéafdi-an, 2 behæfdien, 2–3 bihaued-en, 3 biheafdin, bihafdi, 3–4 bihefden, 4 biheueden, 4–5 behevede(n, bi-, byhede(n, -heede, 4–6 behede, -heede, 5–6 be-, byhedde, 6 beheadde, 6– behead.
[OE. behéafdi-an, f. be- 3 (with privative force) + héafod head; cf. MHG. behoubeten in same sense, mod.G. enthaupten.]
1. trans. To deprive (a man or animal) of the head, to decapitate; to kill by cutting off the head.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xiv. 10 He asende þa and beheafdode Iohannem. c1160Hatton G. ibid., behæfdede. 1205Lay. 26296 Þat heo us wulle bihafdi. a1225Juliana 40 To bihefden [v.r. beheafdin] pawel. 1382Wyclif Matt. xiv. 10 He sente, and bihedide [v.r. byheuedede] Joon in the prisoun. c1450Lonelich Grail xlvii. 155 Beheveded on aftyr anothir. 1474Caxton Chesse 36 Other said that they shold be beheded. 1513More Rich. III Wks. 54/1 To bee byhedded at Pountfreit. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iv. vii. 102 Take him away and behead him. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. II. xlvi. 719 A great number of the captives were beheaded. 1873H. Spencer Stud. Sociol. vii. 156 We beheaded 2000 fellahs, throwing their headless corpses into the Nile.
fig.1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. iv. xiv. §7 To repair the decays thereof by beheading superstition. 1726M. Henry Wks. II. 370 It adds to our grief to see a family beheaded.
2. Of things: To deprive of the top or foremost part. rare.
1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 271 Maister Heskins beheadeth the sentence. 1796Marshall Garden. §20 (1813) 400 Graffs of last year, cut to a few eyes, behead as at 98. Mod. Beheaded and curtailed words. |