† gemoniesn.

Forms: Also 1600s singular Gemony.

Etymology: < Latin (scālae) Gemōniae; of uncertain origin, the assumed connection with gemĕre to groan having little probability, in spite of the existence of the synonymous form Gemitōriae.

Roman History. Obsolete.

1. Steps on the Aventine Hill leading to the Tiber, to which the bodies of executed criminals were dragged to be thrown into the river.

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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > place of > specific sites

no man's landc1350

St Thomas (a, also of) Watering(s)c1405

gemonies1598

Execution-Dock1694

barathrum1849

1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales iii. ii. 67 They had drawen Pisoes images to the Gemonies; and broken them in peeces, if [etc.].

1605 B. Jonson Sejanus v. i. 61 Some your seruants; who..Slip't downe the Gemonies, and brake their neckes.

1629 P. Massinger Roman Actor i. i. sig. B2^v Noe day passes In which some are not fastend to the hooke, Or throwne downe from the Gemonies.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Gemony, a place in Rome where condemned persons were cast down by a pair of stairs head-long into the River Tiber.

2. Misapplied figurative in the sense of ‘tortures’.

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1656 R. Fletcher Poems in Ex Otio Negotium 174 The world, fame, honour, wealth & pleasure then Are the fair wrack and Gemonies of men.

a1683 J. Oldham Remains in Verse & Prose 84 in Wks. & Remains (1684) Anguish through every Member flies, And all those inward Gemonies Whereby frail Flesh in Torture dies.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	gemonies
释义	† gemoniesn. Forms: Also 1600s singular Gemony. Etymology: < Latin (scālae) Gemōniae; of uncertain origin, the assumed connection with gemĕre to groan having little probability, in spite of the existence of the synonymous form Gemitōriae. Roman History. Obsolete. 1. Steps on the Aventine Hill leading to the Tiber, to which the bodies of executed criminals were dragged to be thrown into the river. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > place of > specific sites no man's landc1350 St Thomas (a, also of) Watering(s)c1405 gemonies1598 Execution-Dock1694 barathrum1849 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales iii. ii. 67 They had drawen Pisoes images to the Gemonies; and broken them in peeces, if [etc.]. 1605 B. Jonson Sejanus v. i. 61 Some your seruants; who..Slip't downe the Gemonies, and brake their neckes. View more context for this quotation 1629 P. Massinger Roman Actor i. i. sig. B2^v Noe day passes In which some are not fastend to the hooke, Or throwne downe from the Gemonies. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Gemony, a place in Rome where condemned persons were cast down by a pair of stairs head-long into the River Tiber. 2. Misapplied figurative in the sense of ‘tortures’. ΚΠ 1656 R. Fletcher Poems in Ex Otio Negotium 174 The world, fame, honour, wealth & pleasure then Are the fair wrack and Gemonies of men. a1683 J. Oldham Remains in Verse & Prose 84 in Wks. & Remains (1684) Anguish through every Member flies, And all those inward Gemonies Whereby frail Flesh in Torture dies. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1598
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