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Synonyms for gibbeting

Grammar : Verb
Spell : jib-it
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒɪb ɪt

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Définition of gibbeting

Origin :
  • early 13c., "gallows," from Old French gibet "gallows; a bent stick," diminutive of gibe "club," perhaps from Frankish *gibb "forked stick." The verb meaning "to kill by hanging" is from 1590s. Related: Gibbeted; gibbeting. "Originally synonymous with GALLOWS sb., but in later use signifying an upright post with projecting arm from which the bodies of criminals were hung in chains or irons after execution" [OED].
  • As in choke : verb smother, block
  • As in hang : verb kill by suspension from a rope
Example sentences :
  • It was not until 1752 that gibbeting was recognized by statute.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 » by Various
  • This Act made matters clear, and was the means of gibbeting rapidly increasing in this country.
  • Extract from : « Bygone Punishments » by William Andrews
  • Lincolnshire history supplies some curious details respecting the gibbeting of a man named Tom Otter, in the year 1806.
  • Extract from : « Bygone Punishments » by William Andrews
  • To Kleinwort there was a certain humour in the idea of first gibbeting a man as a rogue, and then treating him as a simpleton.
  • Extract from : « Mortomley's Estate, Vol. II (of 3) » by Charlotte Elizabeth Lawson Cowan Riddell
  • As for the members of the other societies, he was for gibbeting their principles only.
  • Extract from : « Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. I (of 16) » by Thomas Hart Benton
  • Thus the practice of gibbeting on a cross was in use at least as early as in the days of King David.
  • Extract from : « Hanging in Chains » by Albert Hartshorne
  • But still the gibbeting did not form, as it never has formed, part of the legal sentence.
  • Extract from : « Hanging in Chains » by Albert Hartshorne
  • The gibbeting of the bodies of executed persons does not seem to have been general.
  • Extract from : « Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony » by George Francis Dow
  • It walks abroad, it continues its ravages, whilst you are gibbeting the carcase, or demolishing the tomb.
  • Extract from : « Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke » by Edmund Burke

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