Carnifex
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Carnifex is a noun meaning (now rare, historical) An executioner.
Meaning
(now rare, historical) An executioner.
Example Sentences
‘Lesser places have no more than a carnifex, who takes life and performs such excruciations as the judicators there decree.’
“[T]he carnifex, or executioner there, is brandishing his gulley ower near the King's face, seeing he is within reach of his weapon.”
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.
Word Forms
- carnifexes
- carnifices
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include executioner, carnitarian, carnivoracity, carnivore, scavenger, carnivority.
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