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▪ I. butchery, n.|ˈbʊtʃərɪ|
Forms: 4 bocherie, 5 bocheri, 5–6 bochery(e, buchery, 6 boucherie, bouchery(e, bochery, butcherie, 6– butchery.
[a. F. boucherie (13th c. in Littré): see butcher n. and -y3.]
1. A slaughter-house, shambles; a butcher's shop or stall; also attrib. (Now chiefly applied to the slaughterhouses in public establishments, as barracks, etc., in a camp, or on shipboard.)
c1340Ayenb. 64 Þise him tobrekeþ smaller þanne me deþ þet zuyn ine bocherie. 1382Wyclif 1 Cor. x. 25 Al thing that cometh in the bocherie, ete ȝe. 1494Fabyan vii. 495 He was..hanged vpon a tree lyke as an oxe is hanged in the bochery. 1555Eden Decades W. Ind. (Arb.) 189 A streame of congeled blud as thoughe it had runne from a bouchery. 1792A. Young Trav. France 299 Five shepherds were conducting eight hundred sheep to the butcheries at Marseilles. 1870Daily News 23 Sept., The bakery, the butchery, the magazines are all models of cleanliness. 1882Standard 11 Sept. 2/1 Employed in connection with the bakery and butchery train.
b. fig.
1587Golding De Mornay xxxi. 501 What shall all Hierusalem be but a verie Slaughterhouse and Butcherie? 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. iii. 27 This house is but a butcherie: Abhorre it, feare it, doe not enter it. 1646J. Temple Irish Rebell. 94 The whole County, as it were, a common Butchery.
2. The trade or craft of a butcher. Now only attrib., as in butchery business.
c1449Pecock Repr. i. x. 49 Tailour craft..sadeler craft..bocheri..masonrie. 1551Robinson tr. More's Utop. 112 They counte huntynge..the vyleste..part of boucherie. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. II. s.v. Sweetbread, A Butchery and Culinary Term. 1886Auckland Even. Star 25 June 3/4 Butchery Business for Sale.
†3. Butchers collectively or as a community. Obs.
c1475Bk. Found. St. Barthol. Ch. (1886) Introd. 70 Whan this was dyvulgate, by all the bocherie, for a wurthy myracle..it was toke. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. xviii. 35 Jaques Dandenboure founde all tho of the bochery well enclyned.
†4. Place of torture or torment: L. carnificīna, F. boucherie, applied to a horrible prison. Obs.
1533Bellenden Livy ii. (1822) 140 He wes nocht condampnit to service, bot erar to presoun and bouchery.
5. Cruel and wanton slaughter, carnage. Also fig.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. Pref., The doctrine..is a deadly butcherie of soules. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. x. lvii. (1612) 251 The ciuill Warres and Butcheries in France. 1866Kingsley Herew. iii. 77 He began boasting of his fights, his cruelties and his butcheries.
†b. Torture, torment. Obs.
1592tr. Junius on Rev. xvi. 2 That torture of butcherie of conscience.
▪ II. † ˈbutchery, a.
Obs. = butcherly.
1626T. H. Caussin's Holy Crt. 65 He would find out other wayes to dye..then by this Butchery frenzy. |