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Definition of Beheader
1. one that beheads [n -S] - See also: beheads
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beheader
Literary usage of Beheader
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1898)
"Hated for his cruelty, he was called ' the butcher of England,' and is described
as 'the fierce executioner and beheader of men. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In France six hundred priests were murdered by Jourdan, "the beheader", in 1791,
and in the next year three hundred ecclesiastics, including an archbishop ..."
3. Ireland: Historical and Statistical by George Lewis Smyth (1847)
"He had a son distinguished as Ulick Negan, or the beheader, because he collected
together and made a mount of the heads of men slain in battle, ..."
4. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1778)
"... he pulls out its tongue, and gives the 11th to another man, whom they call
the beheader. This man, with a two-edged knife like a lancet, flits the 11th ..."
5. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl (1845)
"... the firm and independent exercise of the constituted authorities ; their
disorganizing * " M. Jouve Jourdan, entitled the ' beheader,' was born in 1749. ..."
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