单词 | quemadero |
释义 | quemaderon. Now historical. In Spain and Spanish territories: a place where convicted heretics were executed by burning.In quot. 1934 in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > place of > for burning quemadero1778 1778 tr. J. Chappe d'Auteroche Voy. Calif. 45 This Quemadero [Fr. ce Quemadero] is an enclosure between four walls, and filled with ovens, into which are thrown..the poor wretches who are condemned to be burnt alive. 1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. ii. iii. 353 The place of execution—the quemadero, the burning-place, as it was called—was a spot selected for the purpose without the walls of the city. 1874 W. H. Rule Hist. Inquisition I. xiv. 208 The quemadero was a piece of pavement devoted to the single use of burning human bodies. 1908 H. C. Lea Inquisition in Spanish Dependencies vi. 206 It was not until 1596 that the municipality [sc. Mexico]..constructed a quemadero or burning place, where concremation could be performed decently and in order. 1934 A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 189 On each mound were..hearths of broken potsherds, blackened with smoke—the quemaderos, or burning places of the Indians. 1991 16th Cent. Jrnl. 22 292 Confessors accompanied the accused down from the scaffold through the city to the quemadero, pleading along the way for a change of heart. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1778 |
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