| 单词 |
beheading |
| 释义 |
▪ I. beheading, vbl. n.|bɪˈhɛdɪŋ|
[f. behead v. + -ing1.]
The action of cutting off the head; spec. of execution by decapitation.
a1225Ancr. R. 184 Nolde me tellen him alre monne dusiȝest, þet forsoke..ane nelde prikunge, uor ane bihefdunge. 1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Cyrurg., Whan he had a deade body by beheadyng or other wyse. 1585Thynne in Animadv. Introd. 75 The duke of Buckinghams beheadding. 1586–7Churchw. Acc. St. Margaret's, Westm., (Nichols 1797) 21 Paid for ringing at the beheading of the Queen of Scotts. 1615Hieron Wks. I. 664 That story, which reports his beheading at Rome. 1732T. Lediard Sethos II. vii. 54 The easiest and shortest of all deaths, beheading. 1863Thackeray in Cornh. Mag. Jan., Battles and victories, treasons, kings, and beheadings.
fig.1641Milton Ch. Govt. v. (1851) 115 For if the type of Priest be not taken away, then neither of the high Priest, it were a strange beheading.
▪ II. beˈheading, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That severs the head or decapitates.
1845Browning Soul's Trag. 1, The beheading axe! |
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