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carnifex

noun

Etymology

From Latin carnifex (“butcher”).

  1. borrowed from carnifex

Definitions

  1. An executioner.

    • “[T]he carnifex, or executioner there, is brandishing his gulley ower near the King's face, seeing he is within reach of his weapon.”
    • ‘Lesser places have no more than a carnifex, who takes life and performs such excruciations as the judicators there decree.’
    • Vorónezh: Ovid thrusts abruptly wide / the ice-locked shutters, discommodes his lyre / to Caesar's harbingers. Interrogation, / whatever is most feared. Truth's fatal vogue, / sad carnifex, self-styled of blood and wax.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA