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单词 criminal execution
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criminal execution
8. The infliction of punishment in pursuance of a judicial sentence; an instance of this. (In legal use also more fully criminal execution.)
a. gen. (but chiefly with reference to corporal penalties).
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society > authority > punishment > [noun] > action of inflicting
punishingc1375
punition1405
executionc1430
justifying1487
inflictiona1535
animadversion1535
penalization1888
woodshedding1940
c1430 Hymns Virg. (1867) 20 Medele þou merci with execusioun.
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Wilful Rebel. iii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 575 Let us..fear the dreadful execution of God.
1631 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. (ed. 2) (2nd state) §xcii Let others rejoyce in these publique executions.
1640 W. Prynne in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 76 The small Remainder of his Ears, left after his first Execution.
1827 A. W. Fonblanque Eng. under Seven Admin. (1837) I. 81 In..military executions, a medical man stands by and sees what the sufferer under the scourge can bear.
1848 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (ed. 3) I. 489 After the execution Dangerfield..was taken back to prison.
b. spec. The infliction of capital punishment; the putting (a person) to death in pursuance of a judicial or authoritative sentence. Also called †execution of death.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > infliction of
justice?a1160
executionc1360
axe1450
justifying1487
c1360 Song of Mercy 37 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 119 Riht wolde sle vs. for vr sunne. Miht wol don execucion.
1471 in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS Comm. App. Pt. IV: MSS Duke of Rutland (1888) I. 4 in Parl. Papers (C. 5614) LXIV. 1 Edmund late Duc of Somerset taken and put to execucion.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xvi. 366 Maye ye doo execusion vpon hym.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. xxxvii. f. xiiiiv To be put to dethe..by heddynge, fleynge, brennynge, & other cruell Execucyons.
1517 R. Torkington Oldest Diarie Englysshe Trav. (1884) 69 To be put to execucion of Dethe by and bye.
1536 Sir W. Kingston in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. i. 122 II. 63 I have told my lord of Rocheford that he be in aredynes to morow to suffur execusyon.
1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 25 Thys yere the commons of Cornwall arose..The captayns tane and put to excecucione.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. iv. 1 Is execution done on Cawdor? View more context for this quotation
1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iv. viii. 385 Disgrace, Torture, Execution of death..and other externall crosses like unto these.
1672 H. Dodwell Two Lett. Advice i. xiii. 49 The stakes and gridirons, and other the most terrible executions.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. v. 87 To see an Execution..of a Man who had murdered.
1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times IV. liii. 147 The execution of these men did not even tend to prevent crime.
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