lapidation

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Arist 95] Ibid 96] The custom of lapidation was common to the earlier ages; it had a kind of sanction, too, in particular offences; and no crime could be considered by a brave and inflamed people equal to that of advice against their honour and their liberties 97] See Herod., lib.

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  1. The act of throwing stones at a person or of striking a person with stones; punishment or execution by stoning. All adulterers should be executed by lapidation; the ancienter punishment was burning: death always, though in divers forms. Bp. Hall, Contemplations, iv. 15. Adultery, if detected, would be punished by lapidation according to the rigor of the Koranic law. R. F. Burton, El-Medinah, p. 284.

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  • On peut citer celles autorisant la guerre, la pendaison, la lapidation ou le bûcher.
  • En Europe occidentale, il est impensable qu'un prêtre chrétien ou un rabbin prône la guerre sainte ou la réintroduction de la lapidation, pourtant prévues dans la Bible.
  • Arist 95] Ibid 96] The custom of lapidation was common to the earlier ages; it had a kind of sanction, too, in particular offences; and no crime could be considered by a brave and inflamed people equal to that of advice against their honour and their liberties 97] See Herod., lib. —  Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
  • [FN#38] It is generally sacrificed immediately after the first lapidation, and we had already been guilty of delay. —  Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah ; Meccah — Volume 2
  • On the night of the 10th (our 9th), for instance, lapidation, according to some authorities, cannot take place; others permit it, with a sufficient reason. —  Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah ; Meccah — Volume 2
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  1. = French lapidation = Provencal lapidatio = Spanish lapidacion = Portuguese lapidação = Italian lapidazione, from L. lapidatio(n-), a stoning, from lapidare, stone: see lapidate.
 

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