Meaning of carnifex | Babel Free

Definitions

An executioner.

archaic, historical

Equivalents

Examples

““[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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