Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Beheading; decapitation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Modern Beheading.

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  • noun beheading

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Examples

  • "If I was a queen, I would throw my crown away when it was time for my beheadal."

    Troublesome Comforts A Story for Children Geraldine Glasgow

  • Daily, Cade at the head of his troops crossed the bridge into the city, and on one of those excursions he caused the seizure and beheadal of the hated Lord Say.

    Inns and Taverns of Old London

  • Now I understand your joy when you read of the beheadal of the man who took my father's place!

    Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Paul Kauvar; or, Anarchy Steele Mackaye 1906

  • Winthrop happily died before the news of the beheadal of Charles I. had reached New England, and for a time, Cromwell was too busy with the reduction of Ireland and the problem of government suddenly thrust upon him, to do anything but ignore the active life so much after his own heart, in the new venture of which he had once so nearly become a part.

    Anne Bradstreet and Her Time Campbell, Helen, 1839-1918 1890

  • There remain the demand for an unbaptized child to kiss, the torture to which the heroes of the two Bohemian sagas submit, the requirement in the Pomeranian tale to place seven brothers on the stone haunted by the seven mice, and lastly the personal violence to the damsel involved in striking her with a birch-rod or a bunch of juniper and in beheadal.

    The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Edwin Sidney Hartland 1887

  • Winthrop happily died before the news of the beheadal of Charles I. had reached New England, and for a time, Cromwell was too busy with the reduction of Ireland and the problem of government suddenly thrust upon him, to do anything but ignore the active life so much after his own heart, in the new venture of which he had once so nearly become a part.

    Anne Bradstreet and Her Time Helen Campbell 1878

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