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executioner 音标拼音: [,ɛksəkj'uʃənɚ] n. 死刑执行人,刽子手 死刑执行人,刽子手 executioner n 1: an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant [synonym: {executioner}, {public executioner}] Executioner \Ex`e*cu"tion*er\, n. 1. One who executes; an executer. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman. [1913 Webster] Executioner (Mark 6:27). Instead of the Greek word, Mark here uses a Latin word, speculator, which literally means "a scout," "a spy," and at length came to denote one of the armed bodyguard of the emperor. Herod Antipas, in imitation of the emperor, had in attendance on him a company of speculatores. They were sometimes employed as executioners, but this was a mere accident of their office. (See MARK, GOSPEL {OF}.) EXECUTIONER. The name given to him who puts criminals to death, according to
their sentence; a hangman. 2. In the United States, executions are so rare that there are no executioners by profession. It is the duty of the sheriff or marshal to perform this office, or to procure a deputy to do it for him.
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