Executioner
[eksɪ'kjuːʃ(ə)nə] or ['ɛksɪ'kjʊʃənɚ]
Definition
(noun.) an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant.
Edited by Bonita--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who executes; an executer.
(n.) One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman.
Edited by Ervin
Examples
- He was coming up from the Piraeus outside the north wall, and he passed a spot where there were dead bodies lying by the executioner. Plato. The Republic.
- Also it would seem he screamed when the executioner removed his bandages. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As freely as ever victim forgave her executioner. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Who, taking his stand on the floor before them as chief executioner, would be attended by a conventional volunteer boy as executioner's assistant. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- A nod to the executioner was sufficient. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If a person has the audacity to say the contrary, the answer is--Then why do criminals require the hand of the executioner, and not die of themselves? Plato. The Republic.
Typed by Harley