| 单词 | condemned cell |
| 释义 | > as lemmascondemned cell 3. Appropriated to condemned persons, or things rejected, as in condemned cell, condemned pew, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > cell > for those condemned to death condemned cell1818 salt-box1819 death cell1825 Murderers' Row1871 death row1894 1688 P. Cook in R. L'Estrange Brief Hist. Times III. 78 In the Place call'd the Condemn'd Hole. 1717 Hist. Press-Yard 7 I was conducted to the door leading out of the lodge into the Condemn'd Hold. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 171 The poor Fellow..is in your Condemn'd Hole. 1735 Lives Most Remarkable Criminals III. 247 He..upon insulting the Court was order'd to be in one of the condemn'd Cells of Newgate. 1818 Baldw. Brown Mem. J. Howard v. 135 ‘The pit’ and within it, the condemned cell, both dirty and offensive. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 123 The condemned pew—a huge black pen, in which the wretched men who are singled out for death, are placed, on the Sunday preceding their execution. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist III. lii. 295 They led him to one of the condemned cells. 1884 A. Griffiths Chron. Newgate 360 Hence there was a terrible accumulation of prisoners in the condemned cells. 1884 A. Griffiths Chron. Newgate 434 Excluded from the Newgate Chapel on the day the condemned sermon was preached. < as lemmas |
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