单词 | decollate |
释义 | † decollateadj. Obsolete or archaic. Beheaded: in early use as past participle. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > [adjective] > beheaded headlessOE decollatec1470 c1470 J. Hardyng Chron. lxx. iii He was heded with swerd and decollate. 1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. IV. xii. 209 All five, to-day, have suffered death..he, Decollated by way of privilege, The rest hanged decently and in order. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2021). decollatev.1 1. transitive. To sever at the neck; to behead. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (transitive)] > behead beheadc1000 headOE for-head13.. unheadc1480 firkc1540 decollate1599 decapitate1611 decoll1649 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 30/2 With on blow beheaded, or decollated. 1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells vii. 474 A statue with three heads..two of them were quite beat off and the Third was much bruised but not decollated. 1656 H. Phillippes Purchasers Pattern (1676) 257 Sir Walter Rawleigh decollated. 1782 W. F. Martyn Geogr. Mag. 1 720 The murderer..is instantly decollated. 1814 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 12 223 Upon taking off the cloth he beheld a human head just decollated. 2. Conchology. To break off the apex of (a shell). ΚΠ 1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 96 The inner courses of this shell probably break away or are ‘decollated’ in the progress of its growth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). decollatev.2 intransitive. To separate sheets of paper, etc., esp. multi-part continuous stationery, mechanically into different piles. Cf. decollator n.2 ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > [verb (intransitive)] > separate sheets of paper into piles decollate1967 1967 D. Wilson in G. Wills & Yearsley Handbk. Managem. Technol. 46 A wide range of document-handling equipment is marketed, which will decollate (separate carbons from printed sheets). 1984 Mag. Bank Admin. Jan. 84/3 [The] T7070 burster bursts and slits one to four-ply forms at a rate of up to 300 feet per minute and can also decollate as it bursts. Derivatives decoˈllating n. ΚΠ 1979 Fortune 12 Mar. 27 There's no need for..printing and storing preprinted forms. Going through the trouble of changing them. Or bursting, decollating, reloading or retyping. 1982 Computerworld 29 Nov. sr/19 One-part computer paper costs $33 per thousand pages... To that must be added the costs for the actual printing, collating, decollating and distribution. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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