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Guillotine

noun

Closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill. Synonym: closure by compartment.

Instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people.

verb

(past & past part. guillotined; pres. part. guillotining)

Kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine.

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"Guillotine" Quotes from Famous Books

... and he was guillotined—gentleman and artist of merit though he was. They were kind to his young son; his friends made up a purse and sent him afar to be educated and reared in ignorance. But the shadow of the guillotine is projected afar, and I saw its red finger point to the assassin's offspring. I have found him. If my hand is not too feeble to strike, it ...

— The Son of Clemenceau • Alexandre (fils) Dumas

... was no meal in that house to which she sat down earlier than half an hour Jate. She had a rightful property-interest in the Revolution, her own great-uncle having been one of those who "suffered;" not, however, under the guillotine; for to Georges Meilhac appertained the rare distinction of death by accident on the day when the business-like young Bonaparte played upon the mob with ...

— The Two Vanrevels • Booth Tarkington

... the brains that propound them. All the instituted rights of men were accordingly violated in the fierce desire to establish the abstract rights of man. A government founded on reason was to be created by a preliminary and provisional government founded on the guillotine. The ideals of Rousseau were to be realized by practices learned in the school of Draco; and a celestial democracy of thought was to spring from a demonized democracy of fact. Now we are accustomed ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 • Various

... Incarnation de Vautrin," in which Balzac describes Vautrin's passage through the ranks of the gaol-birds and gaol officials among whom he had passed so much of his life? Above all, do you recall that final, and supreme, and awful touch in which, addressing consciously the handler of the guillotine, he professes to take him for the chaplain, and, bringing the poor executioner for once to confusion, is addressed with blushing face and trembling lips with the observation, "Non, Monsieur, ...

— Sketches In The House (1893) • T. P. O'Connor

... exclaimed one fellow with a horrid grin; "if we had you in la belle France, your head would not remain long on your shoulders. We guillotine all such. It's the best way to treat them. They have trampled too long on our rights, ...

— True Blue • W.H.G. Kingston

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