What does carnifex mean?
Carnifex means (now rare, historical) An executioner..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(now rare, historical) 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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Carnifex means (now rare, historical) An executioner..
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“[T]he carnifex, or executioner there, is brandishing his gulley ower near the King's face, seeing he is within reach of his weapon.”
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