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Definition of Gibbeted
1. gibbet [v] - See also: gibbet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gibbeted
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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