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单词 carnifex
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carnifexn.

/ˈkɑːnɪfɛks/
Etymology: < Latin carnifex, carnific-em, < carn-em flesh + -fex, -ficem, maker, < fac- (in combination -fic-) make, making; in ancient Latin ‘executioner’, but in medieval Latin often ‘butcher’ (the trade), e.g.1521 Court Rolls of Northall, Middx. [Presentment] quod Johannes Swycote est carnifex et vendit carnem corruptam.a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Essex 320 Butchers, (inscribed Carnifices in their Epitaphs).
Obsolete exc. Historical.
An executioner.
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officer?1387
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executora1513
slaughter-slave1556
carnifex1561
executioner1561
deathsman1589
verdugo1616
hals-mana1658
1561 Newe Enterlude Script. Queene Hester sig. Ejv Auoide the murder of this carnifex Aman.
1617 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Faire Quarrell (new ed.) iv. sig. H4 Let the Carnifexes scoure their throates.
1831 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel (new ed.) I. v. 100 The carnifex, or executioner there.
1882 J. Martineau Study Spinoza 21 The chief carnifex undertaking the high-born folks.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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