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cadaver|kəˈdeɪvə(r)|
[a. L. cadāver dead body, perhaps f. cad-ĕre to fall. So F. cadavre.]
A dead body, esp. of man; a corpse. (Now chiefly in technical lang.)
[1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vi. ii. (1495) 187 Careyne hath that name of cadauare of cadere . to falle.] c1500Noble Life i. xxxv, Zelio is a beste..it abydeth gladly in places wher as people be buryed, And it eteth the cadauers or wormes. 1524Will of J. Terry (Somerset Ho.) I John Terry of Norwich..commende..my body to be Cadaver..to be buried. 1547Boorde Brev. Health lx. 18 Beware of..dead cadavers, or caryn. a1626Davies Wit's Pilgrim. ii, Whoever came From death to life? Who can cadavers raise? 1714Mandeville Fab. Bees (1725) I. 186 Time was when..the cadavers of the greatest emperors were burnt to ashes. 1874Roosa Dis. Ear (ed. 2) 19 Anatomical investigations on the human cadaver.
b. A skeleton.
1682Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. 91 Death's heads..and fleshless cadavers. |