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Definition of Decapitating
1. decapitate [v] - See also: decapitate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decapitating
Literary usage of Decapitating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"In other cases, these flies undoubtedly lay their eggs on diseased or dying insects.
Life History of the Ant-Decapitating Fly ..."
2. Dalmatia and Montenegro: With a Journey to Mostar in Herzegovina, and by Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, Gardner Wilkinson (1848)
"... respecting the Discontinuance of the Custom of decapitating Prisoners, and
the Dead. ... decapitating ..."
3. The science and art of obstetrics by Sheldon Leavitt (1892)
"Mode of using the Decapitating Hook. the purpose, but what is known as ...
decapitating hook has met with much favor. To use the instrument it is slipped ..."
4. American Gardening (1890)
"... by Mr. Shirk that the tree is an excellent bearer. In my opinion it surpasses
nearly all the sweet apples ripening at this season. Decapitating Trees. ..."
5. France for the Lst Seven Years: Or, The Bourbons by William Henry Ireland (1822)
"... (the usual hour appointed for decapitating crimi.. nals,) as the dreadful
apparatus were being con. veyed by eight in the morning to the Place de Greve; ..."
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