单词 | execution of death |
释义 | > as lemmasexecution of death 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. ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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