percussor

[per-kuhs-er]

noun

Medicine/Medical.

1. plexor.

Word History and Origins

Origin of percussor¹

1885–90; < New Latin, Latin: one that beats, equivalent to percut-, stem of percutere to beat ( percuss ) + -tor -tor, with tt > ss

Example Sentences

Homicida denotes the manslayer in a general sense, as far as manslaughter is a crime, like ἀνδροφόνος; whereas interfector, peremtor, and interemtor, only the slayer of a particular person, whether the deed be a crime or not, like φονεύς; percussor and sicarius denote the instruments of another’s will, and mere mechanical executioners of another’s decree; but the percussor executes a public sentence of condemnation, as the headsman, while the sicarius lends and hires out his hand to a secret assassination, like the bandit.

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