lynchn.¹

Brit.

/lɪn(t)ʃ/, U.S.

/lɪn(t)ʃ/

Forms: also (in early use) with capital initial.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Lynch.

Etymology: < the name of Lynch (see lynch law n.).

Originally U.S.

As modifier. Originally used with reference to the infliction of punishment by a self-constituted court having no legal authority, of the kind associated with ‘Judge Lynch’ (see Judge Lynch n.), as Lynch court, etc.; later also more generally with reference to mob justice, esp. summary execution (cf. lynch v. 1a). See also lynch law n., lynch man n., lynch mob n.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > improperly constituted court

lynch1835

Vehmgericht1845

kangaroo court1853

1835 Zion's Herald 28 Oct. 171/3 A letter from New Orleans..mentions that another instance of punishment, under the sentence of a Lynch court, had been inflicted in that city upon a physician, who was first severely flogged, and then had one of his ears cut off!

1836 Philadelphia Visiter Aug. 13/1 As his honor told you, justice is sartain, no escaping Lynch Justice, as he calls it.

1844 B. Green Sketches Life J. G. Birney 7 Between eight and nine hundred of the people of the county..had associated together as a lynch club.

1917 Chicago Defender 1 Dec. 1/5 [He] walked from under the noose of the Florida lynch rope and is today a free man.

1955 Pittsburgh Courier 17 Sept. 1/7 Mrs. Mamie Bradley, mother of lynch-victim Emmett Till, asked this reporter: [etc.].

1966 L. Pitt Decline Californios iv. 73 The town's leading politician thereupon inaugurated a lynch court, and a jury of twelve community leaders, ignoring the plea of justifiable homicide, voted to hang Barclay.

1996 O. G. Davidson Best of Enemies (2007) 131 Instead of the gun or the lynch rope, they reached for the telephone.

2014 Times (Nexis) 11 Oct. 41 ‘Law and order has to be maintained and not lynch justice,’ a police spokesman said.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

lynchn.²

Brit.

/lɪn(t)ʃ/, U.S.

/lɪn(t)ʃ/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion.

Etymology: < lynch v.

A lynching.Recorded earliest in the compound lynch-loving.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > lynching

lynching1835

lynch1873

1873 Contemp. Rev. Sept. 590 Men have a natural right to be tried judicially, not sacrificed to a sudden rush of the lynch-loving populace.

1942 Living Church 25 Feb. 16/3 It gives us the gripe to read in some papers that the lynch of a Negro brute was a blot on the state of Missouri.

2000 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 17 Oct. 3 They distributed five-minute cassette tapes with images of the Ramallah lynch of two Israeli soldiers.

2011 A. M. Wasyl Genres Rediscovered i. 72 The killing..is a fully legal execution, not [printed non] a lynch by a blood-thirsty mob.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

lynchv.

Brit.

/lɪn(t)ʃ/, U.S.

/lɪn(t)ʃ/

Forms: 1800s– linch (rare, now nonstandard), 1800s– lynch. Also (in early use) with capital initial.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Lynch.

Etymology: < the name of Lynch (see lynch law n.).Slightly earlier currency is probably implied by lyncher n.

Originally U.S.

a. transitive. To inflict extralegal summary punishment on (an alleged or convicted offender), (in early use) often by whipping, tarring and feathering, etc.; cf. lynch law n. In later use: esp. to execute publicly (an alleged offender) without legal authority, typically by hanging or burning to death.Originally as executed by a self-constituted court having no legal authority, later chiefly as carried out by a mob, especially in response to what is considered a failure of justice on the part of a legitimate court.Particularly associated with the extrajudicial execution of African Americans, especially that perpetrated in Southern states from the end of the American Civil War (1865) to the Civil Rights movement in the mid 20th cent.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (transitive)] > lynch

Dewitt1689

lynch1835

1835 Maryland Gaz. 30 July The citizens of Vicksburg formed an anti-gamblers society on the 4th, and at night Lynched one of the fraternity.

1884 L. H. Griffin Great Republ. 151 It is..unreasonable to insist on the guilt of an unfortunate who has been lynched after an acquittal in open court.

1929 Amer. Mercury Jan. 78/1 A Negro woman..was lynched with almost unmentionable brutality.

1970 Guardian 2 July 4/4 Three Naxalites were lynched in the Midnapore district of West Bengal after they had killed a school teacher.

2013 D. Knight in A. Petty High Rise Stories 46 The white people marched down past where we lived... I had a mental image that they were going to lynch us.

b. transitive. In extended and hyperbolic use. Esp. of a crowd: to subject (a person) to a verbal or physical attack; (of a journalist, commentator, the media, etc.) to write or publish an attack on (a person); to vilify. Frequently in passive.

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1836 U.S. Tel. (Washington, D.C.) 28 Sept. Blair, however, has certainly lynched old Hickory and the little Misseltoe.

1920 A. D. McNair Legal Effects of War vii. 143 The ocean suddenly became dense with constructive total losses, and Bailhache J. might readily have been lynched by underwriters.

1981 B. Champion & J. Powell Champion's Story (1982) iii. 33 The old horse was clearly not himself so I pulled him up as soon as I could without being lynched.

2020 Irish Med. Times (Nexis) 11 Mar. I suspect any politician making such remarks would immediately have been lynched by the media and denounced as a ‘fascist’.

†2. transitive. To cover (something) with tar. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.With reference to the practice of tarring and feathering those punished under lynch law; see to tar and feather at tar v.¹ b.

ΚΠ

1839 H. W. Longfellow Let. 7 Apr. (1966) II. 138 I have Lynch'd all the trees—that is tarred them.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

n.¹1835

n.²1873

v.1835

单词	lynch
释义	lynchn.¹ Brit. /lɪn(t)ʃ/, U.S. /lɪn(t)ʃ/ Forms: also (in early use) with capital initial. Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Lynch. Etymology: < the name of Lynch (see lynch law n.). Originally U.S. As modifier. Originally used with reference to the infliction of punishment by a self-constituted court having no legal authority, of the kind associated with ‘Judge Lynch’ (see Judge Lynch n.), as Lynch court, etc.; later also more generally with reference to mob justice, esp. summary execution (cf. lynch v. 1a). See also lynch law n., lynch man n., lynch mob n. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > improperly constituted court lynch1835 Vehmgericht1845 kangaroo court1853 1835 Zion's Herald 28 Oct. 171/3 A letter from New Orleans..mentions that another instance of punishment, under the sentence of a Lynch court, had been inflicted in that city upon a physician, who was first severely flogged, and then had one of his ears cut off! 1836 Philadelphia Visiter Aug. 13/1 As his honor told you, justice is sartain, no escaping Lynch Justice, as he calls it. 1844 B. Green Sketches Life J. G. Birney 7 Between eight and nine hundred of the people of the county..had associated together as a lynch club. 1917 Chicago Defender 1 Dec. 1/5 [He] walked from under the noose of the Florida lynch rope and is today a free man. 1955 Pittsburgh Courier 17 Sept. 1/7 Mrs. Mamie Bradley, mother of lynch-victim Emmett Till, asked this reporter: [etc.]. 1966 L. Pitt Decline Californios iv. 73 The town's leading politician thereupon inaugurated a lynch court, and a jury of twelve community leaders, ignoring the plea of justifiable homicide, voted to hang Barclay. 1996 O. G. Davidson Best of Enemies (2007) 131 Instead of the gun or the lynch rope, they reached for the telephone. 2014 Times (Nexis) 11 Oct. 41 ‘Law and order has to be maintained and not lynch justice,’ a police spokesman said. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lynchn.² Brit. /lɪn(t)ʃ/, U.S. /lɪn(t)ʃ/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymology: < lynch v. A lynching.Recorded earliest in the compound lynch-loving. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > lynching lynching1835 lynch1873 1873 Contemp. Rev. Sept. 590 Men have a natural right to be tried judicially, not sacrificed to a sudden rush of the lynch-loving populace. 1942 Living Church 25 Feb. 16/3 It gives us the gripe to read in some papers that the lynch of a Negro brute was a blot on the state of Missouri. 2000 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 17 Oct. 3 They distributed five-minute cassette tapes with images of the Ramallah lynch of two Israeli soldiers. 2011 A. M. Wasyl Genres Rediscovered i. 72 The killing..is a fully legal execution, not [printed non] a lynch by a blood-thirsty mob. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lynchv. Brit. /lɪn(t)ʃ/, U.S. /lɪn(t)ʃ/ Forms: 1800s– linch (rare, now nonstandard), 1800s– lynch. Also (in early use) with capital initial. Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Lynch. Etymology: < the name of Lynch (see lynch law n.).Slightly earlier currency is probably implied by lyncher n. Originally U.S. 1. a. transitive. To inflict extralegal summary punishment on (an alleged or convicted offender), (in early use) often by whipping, tarring and feathering, etc.; cf. lynch law n. In later use: esp. to execute publicly (an alleged offender) without legal authority, typically by hanging or burning to death.Originally as executed by a self-constituted court having no legal authority, later chiefly as carried out by a mob, especially in response to what is considered a failure of justice on the part of a legitimate court.Particularly associated with the extrajudicial execution of African Americans, especially that perpetrated in Southern states from the end of the American Civil War (1865) to the Civil Rights movement in the mid 20th cent. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (transitive)] > lynch Dewitt1689 lynch1835 1835 Maryland Gaz. 30 July The citizens of Vicksburg formed an anti-gamblers society on the 4th, and at night Lynched one of the fraternity. 1884 L. H. Griffin Great Republ. 151 It is..unreasonable to insist on the guilt of an unfortunate who has been lynched after an acquittal in open court. 1929 Amer. Mercury Jan. 78/1 A Negro woman..was lynched with almost unmentionable brutality. 1970 Guardian 2 July 4/4 Three Naxalites were lynched in the Midnapore district of West Bengal after they had killed a school teacher. 2013 D. Knight in A. Petty High Rise Stories 46 The white people marched down past where we lived... I had a mental image that they were going to lynch us. b. transitive. In extended and hyperbolic use. Esp. of a crowd: to subject (a person) to a verbal or physical attack; (of a journalist, commentator, the media, etc.) to write or publish an attack on (a person); to vilify. Frequently in passive. ΚΠ 1836 U.S. Tel. (Washington, D.C.) 28 Sept. Blair, however, has certainly lynched old Hickory and the little Misseltoe. 1920 A. D. McNair Legal Effects of War vii. 143 The ocean suddenly became dense with constructive total losses, and Bailhache J. might readily have been lynched by underwriters. 1981 B. Champion & J. Powell Champion's Story (1982) iii. 33 The old horse was clearly not himself so I pulled him up as soon as I could without being lynched. 2020 Irish Med. Times (Nexis) 11 Mar. I suspect any politician making such remarks would immediately have been lynched by the media and denounced as a ‘fascist’. †2. transitive. To cover (something) with tar. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.With reference to the practice of tarring and feathering those punished under lynch law; see to tar and feather at tar v.¹ b. ΚΠ 1839 H. W. Longfellow Let. 7 Apr. (1966) II. 138 I have Lynch'd all the trees—that is tarred them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.¹1835n.²1873v.1835
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