butcheryn.

Brit.

/ˈbʊtʃ(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈbʊtʃəri/

Forms: Middle English bocheri, Middle English bowcherie, Middle English–1500s bocherie, Middle English–1500s bochery, Middle English–1500s bocherye, Middle English–1500s boucherye, Middle English–1600s bucherie, Middle English–1600s buchery, 1500s bocherry, 1500s boocherie, 1500s boutcherie, 1500s boutcherye, 1500s butcherye, 1500s–1600s boucherie, 1500s–1600s bouchery, 1500s–1600s boutchery, 1500s–1600s butcherie, 1500s– butchery; Scottish pre-1700 boucheory, pre-1700 bouchery, pre-1700 bouchrie, pre-1700 boutcherie, pre-1700 boutchery, pre-1700 bowtcharie, pre-1700 bucherie, pre-1700 bucherre, 1700s– butchery.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French boucherie.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman bucherie, bocherie, Anglo-Norman and Middle French boucherie (French boucherie ) slaughterhouse, butcher's shop, meat market, shambles (all 13th cent.), trade or craft of a butcher, meat products (both 14th cent.), carnage, massacre, slaughter (15th cent.) < boucher butcher n. + -ie -y suffix³.Compare post-classical Latin bocaria , bocharia , bocheria , bucheria (10th cent.; from 13th cent. in British sources), Old Occitan bocaria . In sense 5 translating classical Latin carnificīna carnificine n.

a. Originally: a place in which animals are slaughtered for food and (usually also) cut up and prepared for sale; a shop or stall where animals are butchered, or a site on which a number of such shops or stalls are located; a slaughterhouse, an abattoir; cf. shamble n.¹ 4. Later usually: an establishment or business specializing in the preparation and sale of meat and meat products, rather than the slaughter of animals.In the 19th cent. frequently with reference to the area of a barracks, ship, etc., in which the slaughter of animals and preparation of meat takes place (cf. quot. 1870).

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > [noun] > slaughter-house

flesh housec1000

butchery1340

slaughterhousec1374

flesh-shamblesa1410

fleshhewery1483

shambles1548

slaughtery1648

slaughter-pen1688

shamble1885

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 64 (MED) Þise him tobrekeþ smaller þanne me deþ þet zuyn ine bocherie.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. x. 25 Al thing that cometh in the bocherie [L. macello], ete ȝe.

c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 129 (MED) Thow seye neuere in thi lyfe mastyf ne bicche in bocherye that so gladliche wolde ete raw flesh as j ete it.

a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 13526 (MED) I was lyk..Tacalff wych sholde ha be sold..On stallys in the bochery.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. cxxvii^v He was..hanged vpon a tree lyke as an Oxe is hanged in the Bochery.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. xi. f. 153 A streame of congeled blud as thoughe it had runne from a bouchery.

1610 T. Fitzherbert 2nd Pt. Treat. Policy & Relig. xxiv. 354 Butchers, & tho[se] which dwell neere about the butchery, or shambles.

1676 tr. G. Guillet de Saint-Georges Acct. Voy. Athens 257 The publick Butchery separates the Bazar from another great Market-place.

1781 M. J. Armstrong Hist. & Antiq. Norfolk X. 334 Four shops in the butchery,..another shop in the poultry market.

1792 A. Young Trav. France iii. 299 Five shepherds were conducting eight hundred sheep to the butcheries at Marseilles.

1862 C. A. Collins Cruise upon Wheels II. i. 9 Those persons who form their ideas of a butcher's shop from that..in Bond-street, or who, having visited Paris, take their impressions of a French butchery from that in the Rue Tronchet.

1870 Daily News 23 Sept. The bakery, the butchery, the magazines are all models of cleanliness.

1905 Rep. Sel. Comm. Cold Storage (Cape of Good Hope House of Assembly) 120 Six years ago, I had a butchery in the Hex River Valley.., and I used to buy stock for my business.

1961 E. David in Spectator 11 Aug. 214/2 One often finds a cheap cut cheaper and of better quality in a high-class butchery than in a so-called cheap one.

2007 Independent 25 Aug. (Mag.) 47/1 Cranston's is a large and prosperous family-run butchery (founded in 1914) with two large food halls..a number of shops, plus a thriving mail-order business.

†b. figurative or in figurative context. A place likened to a butcher's or slaughterhouse, esp. in being one in which brutal killing takes place. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun] > scene of

butchery?1552

slaughterhouse1578

shamble1593

Aceldama1607

corpse-factory1919

killing ground1946

killing field1980

?1552 tr. M. Flacius Illyricus Wonderfull Newes Death of Paule sig. C^v Whan they had caughte that whore Babilon, that is, the chiefe Byshop..they drewe her into the butcherye and there played the butchers with her,..and sette her before the kinges to be eaten.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxxi. 583 What shall al Hierusalem be but a very Slaughterhouse and Butcherie?

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. iii. 28 This house is but a butcherie; Abhorre it, feare it, doe not enter it.

1646 J. Temple Irish Rebell. i. 94 The whole County, as it were, a common Butchery.

†2. Butchers collectively; the community of butchers. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of meat > butchers collectively

butcheryc1425

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > [noun] > butchery > butcher > butchers collectively

butcheryc1425

butcherdom1857

c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 25 Whan this was dywlgate by all the bocherie for a worthy myracle..it was take.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xviii. f. xiiiiv/1 Jaques Dardenboure founde all tho of the bochery well enclyned to his wyll.

3. The trade or craft of a butcher; the practice of slaughtering animals for food.See also pork butchery n. at pork n.¹ Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > [noun] > butchery

butcheryc1449

fleshery1483

brittlingc1650

butching1688

butchering1860

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 49 Where fyndist thou it groundid in bocheri?

1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Miii They counte huntyng the..vyleste..part of bocherye.

1649 J. Spittlehouse Rome Ruin'd by White Hall iii. vii. 248 I advise them..to practise that trade of Butchery, which is farre fitter for many of them.

1724 J. Maubray Female Physician iv. iv. 181 I would advise such [Chirurgeon-Practitioners] to practise Butchery rather than Midwifery; for in that Case they could sell what they slay.

1834 Laws Legislative Council Territory Florida 54 Any person so engaged in butchery, who shall fail to perform the duties hereby enjoined, shall for every beef so butchered, forfeit..the sum of fifty dollars.

1890 M. Macmillan Promotion Happiness ix. 145 Death in the shambles is still much more painful to the animals killed, and much more horrifying to the tiro in the art of butchery, than it need be.

1903 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly Nov. 88/2 Butchery was an old story to me. For two years I had played in the woods of Maine, and every bit of meat that I ate I killed and butchered for myself.

1986 Guardian 8 July 11/7 There are training schemes which cover all branches of the retail trade, such as butchery, furniture, stationery..and hardware.

2012 New Yorker 3 Dec. 74/2 Their production fits the currently fashionable culinary concept of ‘nose-to-tail’ butchery, meaning that every part of a slaughtered animal must be used.

a. Brutal or indiscriminate slaughter, carnage; an act or instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun]

sleightc893

wal-slaught?a900

qualeeOE

deathOE

swordc1000

morthOE

slaughta1225

destroyingc1300

drepingc1300

martyrdomc1325

murderc1325

mortc1330

sleighterc1330

slaughter1338

iron and firea1387

murraina1387

manslaughtera1400

martyre?a1400

quella1425

occision?a1430

decease1513

destruction1526

slaughting1535

butchery?1536

butchering1572

massacrea1578

slaughterdom1592

slaughtering1597

carnage1600

massacring1600

slaughtery1604

internecion1610

decimationa1613

destroy1616

trucidation1623

stragea1632

sword-wrack1646

interemption1656

carnifice1657

panolethry1668

butcher work1808

bloodbath1814

populicide1824

man-slaughtering1851

battue1864

mass murder1917

genocide1944

overkill1957

?1536 W. Marshall Luther's Images Verye Chrysten Bysshop sig. b.vii^v Whersoeuer the worde of god is not, there without doubte is..mere doctryne of deuylles, and butcherye and slaughter of soules.

1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) x. lvii. 253 The ciuill Warres and Butcheries in France.

1650 T. Waring (title) A brief narration of the plotting, beginning & carrying on of that execrable rebellion and butcherie in Ireland.

1700 Rom. Papal Empire Image of Rom. Pagan Empire 15 There has been more perfidiousness in Papal Butcheries, as in the Parisian and Irish Massacres, than we read of in Pagan Persecutions.

1798 Rapid View of Overthrow of Switzerland 49 He has not been ashamed to..attempt the justification of the butchery of his fellow-citizens, on the 10th of August.

1849 H. Melville Mardi I. i. 5 This horrid and indecent Right Whaling..is as the butchery of white bears upon blank Greenland icebergs.

1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. iii. 111 He..began boasting of his fights, his cruelties and his butcheries.

1930 S. T. Plaatje Mhudi iv. 24 I suffered from awful hallucinations. I saw all over again the butcheries at Kunana.

1966 Life 1 July 27 (heading) Where the rivers ran crimson from butchery.

2009 T. Mort Hemingway Patrols vi. 127 Military grandstanding of the kind that led to the insane butchery of World War I.

b. figurative.

(a) Harsh criticism or condemnation of a creative work, artist, etc.; disparagement.

ΚΠ

1789 R. Potter Art of Crit. 190 A pity it was, that..his posthumous editors, should make the world the confessor of his weaknesses, and of his methodism, commixed as they were with literary butchery and savageness.

1883 American 22 Sept. 380/1 Mr. James Jackson Jarves objects..to the wholesale ‘butchery’ by the critics of the pictures in the Foreign Exhibition.

1905 Amer. Amateur Photogr. Mar. 148/2 I realize that the picture could stand improvement, but it does not deserve such butchery..as your critic seems disposed to bestow.

1960 Sunday Express 23 Oct. 17/4 His roughing-up of George Bernard Shaw can't compare for butchery with what Mr. Mankowitz did last week to Robert Louis Stevenson.

2012 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 14 Dec. (Features section) 25 On Broadway, where critical butchery is an art in its own right..there are shows that died never having made it past previews.

(b) Extreme alteration, distortion, or mutilation of a text, film, etc.; an instance of this.

ΚΠ

1855 W. B. Wood Personal Recoll. Stage xvi. 318 Rolla is one of these self-acting parts, the frequent butchery of which I never recollect to have seen visited by the indignation of an audience.

1883 G. T. Ferris Great Ital. & French Composers 282 His grand ‘Trojans’ was mutilated, tinkered, patched, and belittled, to suit the Théâtre Lyrique. It was a butchery of the work.

1942 H. K. Smith Last Train from Berlin ii. 31 My principal job soon became that of getting stories through the censorship for the United Press with as little butchery from the censors as possible.

1991 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 1 Feb. c1/1 His first epic..arrived in this country in 1977 amid a flurry of lawsuits, mixed reviews and charges of artistic butchery.

2002 Vanity Fair Jan. 125/1 The circumstances surrounding the butchery of The Magnificent Ambersons..launched his reputation as a filmmaker with completion anxiety.

†5. A place of torture or torment. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > torture > instrument or place of torture > [noun] > place of torture

quale-housec1225

qualm-housec1225

wall1528

butcheryc1540

torture-chamber1829

torture-house1898

c1540 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. ii. xi. 167 He was nocht condampnit to service, bot erar to presoun and bouchery [L. carnificinam].

†6. Torment; affliction. Chiefly in butchery of conscience n. spiritual torture. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > [noun]

tintreghc893

threat971

piningOE

murderOE

anguish?c1225

woea1250

pinec1275

tormentc1290

languorc1300

heartbreakc1330

surcarkingc1330

martyrement1340

threst1340

agonyc1384

martyrdomc1384

tormentryc1386

martyre?a1400

tormentisec1405

rack?a1425

anguishing1433

angorc1450

anguishnessa1475

torture?c1550

heartsickness1556

butchery1582

heartache1587

anguishment1592

living hell1596

discruciation1597

heart-aching1607

throeing1615

rigour1632

crucifixion1648

lancination1649

bosom-hell1674

heart-rending1707

brain-racking1708

tormentation1789

bosom-throe1827

angoisse1910

1582 R. Robinson tr. V. Strigel Pt. Harmony King Dauids Harp 156 The hauock and miserie of the poore, may not onelye be vnderstoode as touching the enthraldome of their bodies, but much more of the butcherie of their consciences, which in the popes Jurisdiction is very rife.

1592 tr. F. Du Jon Apocalypsis xvi. 60 That torture or butcherie of conscience seared with an hote yron, which accuseth the vngodly within.

1668 tr. J. Drexel Pleasant & Profitable Treat. Hell 369 In Hell..there is perpetual darkness, everlasting dolours, and butchery of Conscience without end.

1702 T. Barnes Safe Conduct to Christians Resting Place ii. 17 At his holy Hands they suffer an unintermitting butchery of Conscience.

Compounds

General attributive (in senses 1a and 3).In quot. 1558-9 with mail, ‘rent’ (see mail n.¹).

ΚΠ

1558–9 in W. Mackay & H. C. Boyd Rec. Inverness (1911) I. 26 Flescharis [pursued] for..the rest of thair bucherre malis of the Mertimes terme anno lvj.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Sweetbread A Butchery and Culinary Term.

1751 C. Townsend National Thoughts 11 To prove my assertion, I will take the instance of the butchery business in London.

1810 Ipswich Jrnl. 8 Dec. All his various articles in the butchery trade.

1886 Auckland Evening Star 25 June 3/4 Butchery Business for Sale.

1903 Cyclopedia N.Z. VI. 700/1 Mr. Jaston served an apprenticeship of six years in the butchery trade.

1996 Independent 23 Mar. (Mag.) 68/1 Their butchery practices are unlike ours and the cuts have different nomenclature.

2015 M. Leigh Ethical Meat Handbk. 28 Butchery Tools and Tips. If you're ready to try your hand at whole-animal butchery, you need to get a few things straight. Your tools are important.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	butchery
释义	butcheryn. Brit. /ˈbʊtʃ(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈbʊtʃəri/ Forms: Middle English bocheri, Middle English bowcherie, Middle English–1500s bocherie, Middle English–1500s bochery, Middle English–1500s bocherye, Middle English–1500s boucherye, Middle English–1600s bucherie, Middle English–1600s buchery, 1500s bocherry, 1500s boocherie, 1500s boutcherie, 1500s boutcherye, 1500s butcherye, 1500s–1600s boucherie, 1500s–1600s bouchery, 1500s–1600s boutchery, 1500s–1600s butcherie, 1500s– butchery; Scottish pre-1700 boucheory, pre-1700 bouchery, pre-1700 bouchrie, pre-1700 boutcherie, pre-1700 boutchery, pre-1700 bowtcharie, pre-1700 bucherie, pre-1700 bucherre, 1700s– butchery. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French boucherie. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman bucherie, bocherie, Anglo-Norman and Middle French boucherie (French boucherie ) slaughterhouse, butcher's shop, meat market, shambles (all 13th cent.), trade or craft of a butcher, meat products (both 14th cent.), carnage, massacre, slaughter (15th cent.) < boucher butcher n. + -ie -y suffix³.Compare post-classical Latin bocaria , bocharia , bocheria , bucheria (10th cent.; from 13th cent. in British sources), Old Occitan bocaria . In sense 5 translating classical Latin carnificīna carnificine n. 1. a. Originally: a place in which animals are slaughtered for food and (usually also) cut up and prepared for sale; a shop or stall where animals are butchered, or a site on which a number of such shops or stalls are located; a slaughterhouse, an abattoir; cf. shamble n.¹ 4. Later usually: an establishment or business specializing in the preparation and sale of meat and meat products, rather than the slaughter of animals.In the 19th cent. frequently with reference to the area of a barracks, ship, etc., in which the slaughter of animals and preparation of meat takes place (cf. quot. 1870). ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > [noun] > slaughter-house flesh housec1000 butchery1340 slaughterhousec1374 flesh-shamblesa1410 fleshhewery1483 shambles1548 slaughtery1648 slaughter-pen1688 shamble1885 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 64 (MED) Þise him tobrekeþ smaller þanne me deþ þet zuyn ine bocherie. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. x. 25 Al thing that cometh in the bocherie [L. macello], ete ȝe. c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 129 (MED) Thow seye neuere in thi lyfe mastyf ne bicche in bocherye that so gladliche wolde ete raw flesh as j ete it. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 13526 (MED) I was lyk..Tacalff wych sholde ha be sold..On stallys in the bochery. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. cxxvii^v He was..hanged vpon a tree lyke as an Oxe is hanged in the Bochery. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. xi. f. 153 A streame of congeled blud as thoughe it had runne from a bouchery. 1610 T. Fitzherbert 2nd Pt. Treat. Policy & Relig. xxiv. 354 Butchers, & tho[se] which dwell neere about the butchery, or shambles. 1676 tr. G. Guillet de Saint-Georges Acct. Voy. Athens 257 The publick Butchery separates the Bazar from another great Market-place. 1781 M. J. Armstrong Hist. & Antiq. Norfolk X. 334 Four shops in the butchery,..another shop in the poultry market. 1792 A. Young Trav. France iii. 299 Five shepherds were conducting eight hundred sheep to the butcheries at Marseilles. 1862 C. A. Collins Cruise upon Wheels II. i. 9 Those persons who form their ideas of a butcher's shop from that..in Bond-street, or who, having visited Paris, take their impressions of a French butchery from that in the Rue Tronchet. 1870 Daily News 23 Sept. The bakery, the butchery, the magazines are all models of cleanliness. 1905 Rep. Sel. Comm. Cold Storage (Cape of Good Hope House of Assembly) 120 Six years ago, I had a butchery in the Hex River Valley.., and I used to buy stock for my business. 1961 E. David in Spectator 11 Aug. 214/2 One often finds a cheap cut cheaper and of better quality in a high-class butchery than in a so-called cheap one. 2007 Independent 25 Aug. (Mag.) 47/1 Cranston's is a large and prosperous family-run butchery (founded in 1914) with two large food halls..a number of shops, plus a thriving mail-order business. †b. figurative or in figurative context. A place likened to a butcher's or slaughterhouse, esp. in being one in which brutal killing takes place. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun] > scene of butchery?1552 slaughterhouse1578 shamble1593 Aceldama1607 corpse-factory1919 killing ground1946 killing field1980 ?1552 tr. M. Flacius Illyricus Wonderfull Newes Death of Paule sig. C^v Whan they had caughte that whore Babilon, that is, the chiefe Byshop..they drewe her into the butcherye and there played the butchers with her,..and sette her before the kinges to be eaten. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxxi. 583 What shall al Hierusalem be but a very Slaughterhouse and Butcherie? a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. iii. 28 This house is but a butcherie; Abhorre it, feare it, doe not enter it. View more context for this quotation 1646 J. Temple Irish Rebell. i. 94 The whole County, as it were, a common Butchery. †2. Butchers collectively; the community of butchers. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of meat > butchers collectively butcheryc1425 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > [noun] > butchery > butcher > butchers collectively butcheryc1425 butcherdom1857 c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 25 Whan this was dywlgate by all the bocherie for a worthy myracle..it was take. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xviii. f. xiiiiv/1 Jaques Dardenboure founde all tho of the bochery well enclyned to his wyll. 3. The trade or craft of a butcher; the practice of slaughtering animals for food.See also pork butchery n. at pork n.¹ Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > [noun] > butchery butcheryc1449 fleshery1483 brittlingc1650 butching1688 butchering1860 c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 49 Where fyndist thou it groundid in bocheri? 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Miii They counte huntyng the..vyleste..part of bocherye. 1649 J. Spittlehouse Rome Ruin'd by White Hall iii. vii. 248 I advise them..to practise that trade of Butchery, which is farre fitter for many of them. 1724 J. Maubray Female Physician iv. iv. 181 I would advise such [Chirurgeon-Practitioners] to practise Butchery rather than Midwifery; for in that Case they could sell what they slay. 1834 Laws Legislative Council Territory Florida 54 Any person so engaged in butchery, who shall fail to perform the duties hereby enjoined, shall for every beef so butchered, forfeit..the sum of fifty dollars. 1890 M. Macmillan Promotion Happiness ix. 145 Death in the shambles is still much more painful to the animals killed, and much more horrifying to the tiro in the art of butchery, than it need be. 1903 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly Nov. 88/2 Butchery was an old story to me. For two years I had played in the woods of Maine, and every bit of meat that I ate I killed and butchered for myself. 1986 Guardian 8 July 11/7 There are training schemes which cover all branches of the retail trade, such as butchery, furniture, stationery..and hardware. 2012 New Yorker 3 Dec. 74/2 Their production fits the currently fashionable culinary concept of ‘nose-to-tail’ butchery, meaning that every part of a slaughtered animal must be used. 4. a. Brutal or indiscriminate slaughter, carnage; an act or instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun] sleightc893 wal-slaught?a900 qualeeOE deathOE swordc1000 morthOE slaughta1225 destroyingc1300 drepingc1300 martyrdomc1325 murderc1325 mortc1330 sleighterc1330 slaughter1338 iron and firea1387 murraina1387 manslaughtera1400 martyre?a1400 quella1425 occision?a1430 decease1513 destruction1526 slaughting1535 butchery?1536 butchering1572 massacrea1578 slaughterdom1592 slaughtering1597 carnage1600 massacring1600 slaughtery1604 internecion1610 decimationa1613 destroy1616 trucidation1623 stragea1632 sword-wrack1646 interemption1656 carnifice1657 panolethry1668 butcher work1808 bloodbath1814 populicide1824 man-slaughtering1851 battue1864 mass murder1917 genocide1944 overkill1957 ?1536 W. Marshall Luther's Images Verye Chrysten Bysshop sig. b.vii^v Whersoeuer the worde of god is not, there without doubte is..mere doctryne of deuylles, and butcherye and slaughter of soules. 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) x. lvii. 253 The ciuill Warres and Butcheries in France. 1650 T. Waring (title) A brief narration of the plotting, beginning & carrying on of that execrable rebellion and butcherie in Ireland. 1700 Rom. Papal Empire Image of Rom. Pagan Empire 15 There has been more perfidiousness in Papal Butcheries, as in the Parisian and Irish Massacres, than we read of in Pagan Persecutions. 1798 Rapid View of Overthrow of Switzerland 49 He has not been ashamed to..attempt the justification of the butchery of his fellow-citizens, on the 10th of August. 1849 H. Melville Mardi I. i. 5 This horrid and indecent Right Whaling..is as the butchery of white bears upon blank Greenland icebergs. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. iii. 111 He..began boasting of his fights, his cruelties and his butcheries. 1930 S. T. Plaatje Mhudi iv. 24 I suffered from awful hallucinations. I saw all over again the butcheries at Kunana. 1966 Life 1 July 27 (heading) Where the rivers ran crimson from butchery. 2009 T. Mort Hemingway Patrols vi. 127 Military grandstanding of the kind that led to the insane butchery of World War I. b. figurative. (a) Harsh criticism or condemnation of a creative work, artist, etc.; disparagement. ΚΠ 1789 R. Potter Art of Crit. 190 A pity it was, that..his posthumous editors, should make the world the confessor of his weaknesses, and of his methodism, commixed as they were with literary butchery and savageness. 1883 American 22 Sept. 380/1 Mr. James Jackson Jarves objects..to the wholesale ‘butchery’ by the critics of the pictures in the Foreign Exhibition. 1905 Amer. Amateur Photogr. Mar. 148/2 I realize that the picture could stand improvement, but it does not deserve such butchery..as your critic seems disposed to bestow. 1960 Sunday Express 23 Oct. 17/4 His roughing-up of George Bernard Shaw can't compare for butchery with what Mr. Mankowitz did last week to Robert Louis Stevenson. 2012 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 14 Dec. (Features section) 25 On Broadway, where critical butchery is an art in its own right..there are shows that died never having made it past previews. (b) Extreme alteration, distortion, or mutilation of a text, film, etc.; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1855 W. B. Wood Personal Recoll. Stage xvi. 318 Rolla is one of these self-acting parts, the frequent butchery of which I never recollect to have seen visited by the indignation of an audience. 1883 G. T. Ferris Great Ital. & French Composers 282 His grand ‘Trojans’ was mutilated, tinkered, patched, and belittled, to suit the Théâtre Lyrique. It was a butchery of the work. 1942 H. K. Smith Last Train from Berlin ii. 31 My principal job soon became that of getting stories through the censorship for the United Press with as little butchery from the censors as possible. 1991 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 1 Feb. c1/1 His first epic..arrived in this country in 1977 amid a flurry of lawsuits, mixed reviews and charges of artistic butchery. 2002 Vanity Fair Jan. 125/1 The circumstances surrounding the butchery of The Magnificent Ambersons..launched his reputation as a filmmaker with completion anxiety. †5. A place of torture or torment. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > instrument or place of torture > [noun] > place of torture quale-housec1225 qualm-housec1225 wall1528 butcheryc1540 torture-chamber1829 torture-house1898 c1540 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. ii. xi. 167 He was nocht condampnit to service, bot erar to presoun and bouchery [L. carnificinam]. †6. Torment; affliction. Chiefly in butchery of conscience n. spiritual torture. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > [noun] tintreghc893 threat971 piningOE murderOE anguish?c1225 woea1250 pinec1275 tormentc1290 languorc1300 heartbreakc1330 surcarkingc1330 martyrement1340 threst1340 agonyc1384 martyrdomc1384 tormentryc1386 martyre?a1400 tormentisec1405 rack?a1425 anguishing1433 angorc1450 anguishnessa1475 torture?c1550 heartsickness1556 butchery1582 heartache1587 anguishment1592 living hell1596 discruciation1597 heart-aching1607 throeing1615 rigour1632 crucifixion1648 lancination1649 bosom-hell1674 heart-rending1707 brain-racking1708 tormentation1789 bosom-throe1827 angoisse1910 1582 R. Robinson tr. V. Strigel Pt. Harmony King Dauids Harp 156 The hauock and miserie of the poore, may not onelye be vnderstoode as touching the enthraldome of their bodies, but much more of the butcherie of their consciences, which in the popes Jurisdiction is very rife. 1592 tr. F. Du Jon Apocalypsis xvi. 60 That torture or butcherie of conscience seared with an hote yron, which accuseth the vngodly within. 1668 tr. J. Drexel Pleasant & Profitable Treat. Hell 369 In Hell..there is perpetual darkness, everlasting dolours, and butchery of Conscience without end. 1702 T. Barnes Safe Conduct to Christians Resting Place ii. 17 At his holy Hands they suffer an unintermitting butchery of Conscience. Compounds General attributive (in senses 1a and 3).In quot. 1558-9 with mail, ‘rent’ (see mail n.¹). ΚΠ 1558–9 in W. Mackay & H. C. Boyd Rec. Inverness (1911) I. 26 Flescharis [pursued] for..the rest of thair bucherre malis of the Mertimes terme anno lvj. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Sweetbread A Butchery and Culinary Term. 1751 C. Townsend National Thoughts 11 To prove my assertion, I will take the instance of the butchery business in London. 1810 Ipswich Jrnl. 8 Dec. All his various articles in the butchery trade. 1886 Auckland Evening Star 25 June 3/4 Butchery Business for Sale. 1903 Cyclopedia N.Z. VI. 700/1 Mr. Jaston served an apprenticeship of six years in the butchery trade. 1996 Independent 23 Mar. (Mag.) 68/1 Their butchery practices are unlike ours and the cuts have different nomenclature. 2015 M. Leigh Ethical Meat Handbk. 28 Butchery Tools and Tips. If you're ready to try your hand at whole-animal butchery, you need to get a few things straight. Your tools are important. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † butcheryadj. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: butcher n., -y suffix¹. Etymology: < butcher n. + -y suffix¹. Obsolete. Brutal; barbarous; bloody; = butcherly adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [adjective] butcherly1528 butcherlike1555 butchering1574 butcherous1575 massacring1585 slaughtering?1592 massacrous1593 butchery1626 carnificial1632 internecine1642 murdering1667 carnificine1681 genocidal1948 1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. i. 65 He would find out other wayes to dye..then by this Butchery [1650 butcherly] frenzy [Fr. cette carnafiere fureur]. 1885 Medium & Daybreak 18 Sept. 602/2 The people in that part of the country had outgrown such a butchery kind of religion. 1891 Sunday Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 15 Feb. 4/3 Though it is urged that Madame Guillotine is a rapid and painless operator, the operation is a very butchery one. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018). < n.1340adj.1626
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