单词 | witch-burner |
释义 | > as lemmaswitch-burner c. With agent nouns and participles, forming compounds in which witch expresses the object of the underlying verb, such as witch-burner, witch-burning, witch-seeker.Typically in the context of the hunting or persecution of people accused or suspected of witchcraft. See also witchfinder n., witch-finding n., witch-hunter n., witch-hunting n., witch-hunting adj., witch-pricker n., witch-smelling n. ΚΠ 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God iv. viii. 164 Cunina. The cradle-keeper and wich-chaser [L. fascinum submouet]. 1646 J. Gaule Select Cases Conscience 5 This suspition, though it bee but late,..yet is it enough to send for the Witch-searchers, or witch-seekers. a1675 B. Whitelocke Memorials Eng. Affairs (1682) anno 1649 418/2 That the Witchtryer taking a Pin, and thrusting it into the Skin, in many parts of their Bodies, they were insensible of it. 1894 Advance (Chicago) 26 Apr. Do we ever hear of Episcopalians as witch burners? 1909 Strand Mag. 38 692/1 They had taken to witch-burning. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. ix. [Scylla & Charybdis] 196 A Scotch philosophaster with a turn for witchroasting. 2006 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 Dec. 66/4 The inadvertent ingestion by witch-accusers of hallucinogenic poisons. 2017 Reason May 67/2 Sale acknowledges witch burning and lynch mobbery as regrettable aberrations. < as lemmas |
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