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单词 to carry a faggot
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to carry (also bear) a faggot
a. A faggot (sense A. 1a), used in the burning alive of people regarded as heretics; (hence by metonymy, in singular with the) this method of execution. Also, esp. in to carry (also bear) a faggot and variants: a punishment in which a person regarded as a heretic, or a person who has recanted heresy, must publicly carry a faggot for a certain time as a mark of shame. Cf. stake n.1 1b. Now historical.See also fire and faggot at Phrases 1 and to fry a faggot at Phrases 2.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > burning > for heresy
faggot?a1425
fire and faggot (also faggots)1528
faggoting1545
Bonnering1613
auto-da-fé1697
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 35 (MED) Scho was ledd and bun by a stake and fagotes of thornes and oþer wode laid aboute hir.
a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 36 (MED) I wold þu wer in Smythfeld, & I wold beryn a fagot to bren þe wyth.
1530 Thorpe's Examinacion To Rdr. sig. A.ij Other that for feare of deathe haue abiured and caryed fagottes.
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 985/1 Running out of Germanye for feare of the fagot.
1631 R. Byfield Doctr. Sabbath Vindicated 51 The wheele, greediron, racke and faggot.
1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions iii. v. 274 Fagots were never ordained by the Apostle for arguments to confute hereticks.
1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials I. viii. 86 He should go before the cross bare-headed..carrying a faggot on his shoulder.
1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. xiv. 195 Mitres or Faggots have been the Rewards of different Persons according as they pronounced these consecrated Syllables, or not pronounced them.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad iv. 144 Racks, wheels and crosses, faggots, stakes and strings.
1899 J. M. Faulkner Hist. Oxfordshire xii. 149 They [sc. the heretics of Burford] were once to bear a faggot at a general procession of heretics at Uxbridge.
1957 Irish Times 2 Mar. 6/2 Those disquieting thoughts which were got rid of in ages of faith by means of the faggot and the rack.
1999 M. Dowling Fisher of Men v. 108 Eventually they recanted, and carried the faggot at Paul's Cross.
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