单词 | pillor |
释义 | pillorv. transitive. = pillory v. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [verb (transitive)] > set in stocks or pillory stockc1325 scourc1450 pillory?a1600 pillor1638 impillor1645 pillorize1647 1638 Div. & Politike Observ. 8 In pillaring, or putting to death such as refuse to doe any worship. 1651 T. Fuller Abel Redevivus 436 So justly pillored for cheaters to all posterity. 1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 30 Apr. I. 238 De-Foe..was pillor'd for it. 1769 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (new ed.) VIII. lxviii. 121 A fellow who had been burned in the hand for crimes, transported, whipped, pillored four times. 1819 Metropolis (ed. 2) III. 170 Pillored in capes and cravats. 1926 D. Dundore Prairie & Making of Middle Amer. ii. 69 Doggerel verses were posted in public places or ran from lip to lip pilloring the scheme and its founders. 2000 Times of India (Nexis) 29 Aug. Naidu chose the opportunity to pillor the Congress [Party] on the flood issue. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1638 |
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