单词 | butcherer |
释义 | butcherern. A person who slaughters people indiscriminately or brutally; cf. butcher n. 2a, butcher v. 1a. Formerly also: †a person who wantonly destroys something (obsolete rare).In quot. 1592 with reference to Revelation 9:15 in which four angels are released into the world to kill a third of humankind.In some later instances perhaps an error for butcher. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > massacrer or slaughterer > [noun] butcherc1450 massacrer1581 butcherer1592 pogromist1907 1592 tr. F. Du Jon Apocalypsis ix. 32 These butcherers [L. carnifices] haue effected the commaundement of God by fraude and violence. 1646 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. II. vi. 66 'Twas thought he should be the Butcherer [It. carnefice] of Edwards sons. 1689 W. Walker tr. H. Languet Vindiciæ contra Tyrannos (new ed.) 16 Nero, that inhumane Butcherer of Christians. 1757 Herald (1758) No. 14. I. 235 The paracidical butcherer of the Roman constitution. 1795 J. B. Linn Misc. Wks. 76 This butcherer of mankind..had conquered most of the nations then in the known world. 1852 National Mag. Nov. 473/1 He was the great scourge, not only of France, but of Europe—the butcherer of the nations. 1893 National Mag. May 28/1 The wounded woman was safely conveyed through the horde of butcherers swarming the streets. 1922 ‘Sapper’ Black Gang xvi. 267 Experts of the Red Terror..butcherers of women and children. 1956 A. Smedley Great Road vi. xxi. 219 General Hsu Ko-hsiang, known as the ‘Peasant Butcherer’ because he had slaughtered thousands of peasants in Hunan in May 1927. 2017 Daily Herald (Chicago) 8 Sept. 32/1 The Limehouse Golem, a skilled butcherer of children, men and women who would make Jack the Ripper look like an underachiever. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1592 |
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