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单词 to execute by the head
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to execute by the head
a. To inflict capital punishment upon; to put to death in pursuance of a sentence. More fully, †to execute to death [= French †exécuter à mort] . †to execute by the head: to behead.
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slayc1175
to put to deatha1450
to hang, draw, and quarter1465
strikec1480
execute1483
justify1531
execution1565
scaffold1716
to have or get one's gruel1797
1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton B iij b To robbe and to stele wherfore they be hanged or otherwyse executed by Justyse.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. clxxxvii They were executed by dyuers tourmentes of dethe.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xiijv Sir Thomas Blonte and all the other prysoners were executed.
1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. ix. xi. 183 First of all Theotecnus him selfe..he executed to death.
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin iv. 233 Hee was executed by the head the day following.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. vi. 548 Divers of their chieftaines have beene executed to death.
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1691) Pref. sig. A iij No more Beggars in the Streets, nor executed for Thieves, than heretofore.
1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 133 Prosecuting and Executing those to death, who [etc.].
1847 G. P. R. James Gowrie xlvi Three of the Earl's faithful servants were executed at Perth.
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