gibbet
noun
a gallows with a projecting arm at the top, from which the bodies of criminals were formerly hung in chains and left suspended after execution.
gibbeted
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past participleof gibbet.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof gibbet.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
gibbetnouna gallows with a projecting arm at the top, from which the bodies of criminals were formerly hung in chains and left suspended after execution.
Example Sentences
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Did you not speak of me as the lover of your prayer, and you said that in ecstasy the nuns—and indeed it must be so—exchange a gibbeted saint for some ideal man?
From Mike Fletcher A Novel by George (George Augustus) Moore
Every one remembers how even the late Laureate gibbeted his Dons--how 'One Discussed his tutor, rough to common men.
From Aspects of Modern Oxford by A. D. (Alfred Denis) Godley
The abuses of the mediæval Church have been gibbeted in every language; but I doubt if the wonderful absolute equality which that Church actually contained and caused has ever been sufficiently remembered.
From Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida
This is not unnatural when we remember how that unfortunate woman has been gibbeted for all time in the characters of Mlle.
From Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Clement King Shorter
Sir Robert Constable was gibbeted above the Beverley-gate, Hull, in 1537, for high treason.
From Bygone Punishments by William Andrews
