decapitee
English
Noun
decapitee (plural decapitees)
- One who is decapitated.
- 1905 May 29, “Better Times Expected by Frank Selee’s Colts: The Chicago Team Is Strong in Fielding and Has a Superfluity of Good Pitchers, But Has Batted Poorly Up to Date”, in The Pittsburg Press, volume 22, number 148, Pittsburg, Pa., page four:
- Wicker has not been used at all this season, but his great work of the last two years seems to preclude the posibility[sic] of Bob’s being the decapitee.
- 1929, Time, page 6:
- The most interesting (and clearest) was one of a decapitation carried out in the presence of a mandarin and an appreciative crowd of villagers. The utility of the queue was noteworthy. The decapitee was kneeling.
- 1931, Sir William Schwenck Gilbert: A Topsy-Turvy Adventure, page 5:
- For, observe: “Ko-Ko” reels off a “little list” of eligible victims (regardless of his subsequent statement that “flirting is the only crime punishable with decapitation”), and then apparently forgets all about it when “Pooh-Bah” and “Pish-Tush” assure him that he himself is the obvious decapitee.
- 1933 August 2, Marshall Evening Messenger, fifty-seventh year, number 39, Marshall, Tex., page four:
- Moreover, instead of murder, the act of decapitation contains no malice or evil intent. It is a purely impersonal mater—except to the decapitee.
- 2009, Lisa M. Bitel, “Relics”, in Landscape with Two Saints: How Genovefa of Paris and Brigit of Kildare Built Christianity in Barbarian Europe, Oxford University Press, page 199:
- Pilgrims may still visit her head, along with the skulls of many other holy men and virgins in the church of the classic decapitee, John the Baptist, at Lumiar.
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Synonyms
- beheadee
- decapitatee
Coordinate terms
- decapitator