单词 | deathsman |
释义 | deathsmann. Now archaic or historical. A man who puts someone to death; an executioner. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > executioner manquellera1275 officer?1387 smiterc1390 manslayera1425 man's quellerc1429 baserc1480 butcher1483 executora1513 slaughter-slave1556 carnifex1561 executioner1561 deathsman1589 verdugo1616 hals-mana1658 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. Lv Democles commaunded the deathsman to doo his deuoyre. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xx. 250 I am only sorrow he had no other deathsman . View more context for this quotation a1632 T. Taylor God's Judgem. (1642) ii. vii. 104 Loath to have any other deaths-man but himselfe, he was found slaine by his owne hand. 1717 D. Manley Lucius v. i. 47 The Woman strait shall die by Fire: But first, The common Deathsman riots in her Charms. 1813 W. Scott Rokeby vi. xxxiii. 324 The very deaths-men paused to hear. 1876 J. B. L. Warren Soldier of Fortune ii. iii. 133 This inexorable eld, My deathsman, and my father, and my king..Gave me the flint rejection. a1916 J. Todhunter Isolt of Ireland (1927) 11 By the token of the sword made whole I knew his deathsman. 1996 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 14 Dec. h6 Late in the Enlightenment, English deathsmen adopted an Irish technique known as the New Drop, in which the scaffold was equipped with an ingenious collapsing floor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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