Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A mankiller; a manslayer; an executioner.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A killer of men; a manslayer; executioner.
- n. obsolete A murderer.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A killer of men; a manslayer.
Etymologies
- From Middle English manquellere, from Old English mancwellere ("a manslayer, executioner"), equivalent to man + queller. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“So it happened that they found this holy man, and they bound him as though he had been a thief or a manqueller, and brought him before the judge, and with a fell and spiteful mood the judge said to him: Thou rude and unbelieving man, wherefore cost thou with thy devilish works convert all the people from their belief to thy belief, and to thy God?”
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