carnifex

American  

[kahr-ni-feks] / ˈkɑr nɪˌfɛks /

noun

• carnifexes,
  plural
• carnifices
  plural

1. Roman History. a public executioner.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• carnifexes
  plural
• carnifices
  plural

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carnifex carnifices

It is thought to have shared a common ancestor with modern-day wombats, and also looked a bit like a marsupial lion known as Thylacoleo carnifex, researcher Arthur Crichton said.

From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2023

This would have left their predators, such as the marsupial lion T. carnifex, vulnerable to extinction.

From Nature ● Oct. 22, 2018

Researchers have long puzzled over precisely what T. carnifex ate, and debated the cause of its extinction.

From Nature ● Oct. 22, 2018

Australia’s largest-ever marsupial predator, Thylacoleo carnifex, probably dined on creatures from densely forested environments, according to a recent analysis.

From Nature ● Oct. 22, 2018

My halberdiers and the carnifex alone stood stolidly indifferent.

From The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro by Rafael Sabatini

Under each of these was a subordinate class, whose office was to kill, prepare, &c. called lanii, and sometimes carnifices.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828 by Various

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