Definition of Gibbeted

1. Verb. (American English) (past of gibbet) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gibbeted

1. gibbet [v] - See also: gibbet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gibbeted

gibberellic acid
gibberellin
gibberellin 3beta-hydroxylase
gibberellins
gibberer
gibberers
gibbering
gibberingly
gibberings
gibberish
gibberishes
gibberishlike
gibbers
gibbet
gibbeted (current term)
gibbeting
gibbetlike
gibbets
gibbetted
gibbetting
gibbier
gibbing
gibblets
gibbon
gibbons
gibbose
gibbosities
gibbosity
gibbostities

Literary usage of Gibbeted

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of British India by James Mill, Horace Hayman Wilson (1858)
"The Body of the Dewan gibbeted. — Sentiments of the Bengal Government.— Disorganised Condition of Travancore. — Administration of Affairs by the Resident as ..."

2. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society by Massachusetts Historical Society (1884)
"Dr. Clarke asked if the story was authentic, and if so, whether there were any other instances of persons being burned or gibbeted in Massachusetts. ..."

3. Money and Its Laws: Embracing a History of Monetary Theories, and a History by Henry Varnum Poor (1877)
"The balance of trade was exploded by Quesnay and his followers a century ago, and was gibbeted in the Bullion Report, but it stalks the money market and the ..."

4. Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments by Addison (1797)
"... to him afterwards, but has gibbeted his name in the Octavo Dictionary under the ... gibbeted ..."

5. The reader's handbook of allusions, references, plots and stories by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1882)
"... the magistrate would just as soon believe these pullets, which 1 am about to eat, are alive, as that a man who has been gibbeted eight days in not dead. ..."

6. Mexico: Its Peasants and Its Priests: Or, Adventures and Historical by Robert Anderson Wilson (1856)
"Three Men gibbeted for robbing a Bishop.—A Court upon Horseback.—The retreat of Corte'z to Otumba.—A venerable Cypress Grove. ..."

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