| 释义 |
sicarian rare.|sɪˈkɛərɪən|
Also 4 -ien, -yen.
[f. L. sīcārius, f. sīca dagger.]
An assassin. Also attrib. or as adj.
a1400N.T. (Paues) Acts xxi. 38 [He] ledde into deserte foure þowsande of men sicaryens. (Sicariens wore men þat maden fauchons or lytel swerdes.) 1654Vilvain Epit. Ess. vi. 33, 4 Sicarians..slu..Becket. 1879Farrar Christ II. lx. 362 In a nation which produced the sicarii, Pilate had given a fatal precedent of sicarian conduct.
So siˈcarious a. rare—1.
1811W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXV. 236 These prejudices..may occasion Sicilian vespers, and expose to sicarious destruction every British resident. |