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Definition of Poisoners
1. poisoner [n] - See also: poisoner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poisoners
Literary usage of Poisoners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Romance of Invention: Vignettes from the Annals of Industry and Science by James Burnley (1886)
"... the Ancient Civilised Races—The Nature of Early Poisons—The poisoners of ...
of Despatch—Professional poisoners—A Secret Society of Women poisoners—La ..."
2. The Visigothic Code: (Forum Judicum) by Visigoths, Samuel Parsons Scott (1910)
"CONCERNING MALEFACTORS AND THEIR ADVISERS, AND poisoners. I. Where a Freeborn
Man Consults with a Soothsayer Concerning the Health, or the Death of Another. ..."
3. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions by Charles Mackay (1841)
"THE SLOW poisoners. Pescara.—The like was never read of. Stephana.—In my judgment,
To all that shall but hear it, 't will appear A most impossible fable. ..."
4. The Chemistry of Common Life by James Finlay Weir Johnston, Arthur Herbert Church (1880)
"How it is employed by the poisoners of India.—Spectral illusions occasioned by
the use of it.—Narcotic qualities of the leaves.—Chemical history of the ..."
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