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Definition of Body snatcher
1. Noun. Someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection.
Definition of Body snatcher
1. Noun. One who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave, vault, etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Body Snatcher
Literary usage of Body snatcher
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Washington and His Generals: Or, Legends of the Revolution by George Lippard (1847)
"This Body-Snatcher of the lecture room does not ravage graveyards ; no! History is
a graveyard to him, and he tears souls from their shrines, ..."
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