单词 | noyade |
释义 | noyaden. 1. An execution carried out by drowning, esp. a mass execution, as those conducted at Nantes in revolutionary France in 1793–4. Frequently in plural. Chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > drowning sackc1386 noyade1801 noyading1837 1801 W. Dupré Lexicographia-neologica Gallica 136 The number of victims to this revolutionary government, made by the guillotine, by the noyades (drowning) and the fusillades..are not to be computed. 1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 13 They choked their rivers with their noyades. 1835 T. B. Macaulay Sir James Mackintosh in Ess. (1897) 320 Then came..revolutionary tribunals, guillotinades, noyades, fusillades. 1878 J. R. Seeley Life & Times Stein I. 163 No guillotine was to be set up..; the Oder, Spree and Weichsel were to see no noyades. 1913 Baroness Orczy Eldorado Introd. p. viii The horrors of Thermidor, the sacrifices, the noyades. 1952 M. Kennedy Troy Chimneys 57 The whole family had perished—the father by guillotine and the rest in the noyades at Nantes. 1984 C. H. Sisson Noyade in Coll. Poems (1984) 243 The fate of those who suffered in noyades, Which is pushing a boatload of unpopular people To the middle of a river, after making suitable plug-holes. 2. figurative. ΚΠ 1819 J. Adams Lett. in Wks. (1850) II. 334 (note) The Mohawks, who were concerned in the noyade of the tea in Boston harbor. 1899 E. Wharton Greater Inclination iv. 126 He and she..were bound together in a noyade of passion that left them resisting yet clinging as they went down. 1955 W. H. Auden Shield of Achilles iii. 76 Some autumn night of delations and noyades. 1987 R. Wilbur To Etruscan Poets in Mind-reader 241 In empty lots Our journals spiral in a fierce noyade Of all we thought to think, Or caught in corners cramp and wad And twist our words. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † noyadev. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To execute by drowning. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (transitive)] > drown noyade1837 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. vi. i. 345 What then is this Thing, called La Révolution, which like an Angel of Death, hangs over France, noyading, fusillading..tanning human skins? 1844 T. Parker in J. Weiss Life & Corr. T. Parker (1863) I. 225 The wretched Terrorists..guillotined, and noyaded, and mitrailled, I know not how many. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1801v.1837 |
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