decollation

Wherefore king Henrie with a mightie armie (on the tuesdaie after the feast of the decollation of S. John) entred into the realme of France, and burned manie townes and villages, approching the same day néere to the towne of Maunt, where the French king was thought to be.

Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed

The treasons of its civil wars had created so many executions, that a Gascon, wishing to prove that his father had been beheaded as a nobleman, instead of hanged like a dog or a citizen, asserted the decollation to have been so expertly executed _en Grève_, that the sufferer was unconscious of his end.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

When they had finished the decollation, they again consulted what was next to be done.

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward

Anticipating the glory of extirpating heresy, he is feeling the sharp edge of an axe, to be employed in the decollation of the enemies to the true faith.

The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler

He mused aloud about that very simple reaction which we call the sense of beauty and have resolutely sophisticated ever since criticism existed -- I intent meanwhile and eating most of a mallard as sanguine as a decollation of the Baptist.

The Collectors Frank Jewett Mather

There one finds her upon the day of the decollation of Saint John the

Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

There one finds her upon the day of the decollation of Saint John the

Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

The epoch of the Martyrs here began with the decollation of the priest Perfecto, in 850.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

And S. Austin rehearseth in a sermon that he made on the occasion of the decollation, by way of example, that there was an innocent man and a true which had lent certain money to another man which denied it him when he asked it.

The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900

It is read that the decollation of S. John Baptist was established for four causes, like as it is found in the Book of Office.

The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900