lapidator

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Definition

Noun: 1. A person who attacks by throwing stones: Specifically, someone who pelts another person with stones, often with lethal intent. This term is strongly associated with the historical and brutal method of execution known as stoning.

Usage

The word "lapidator" is a formal and specific term. It is rarely used in everyday conversation and is most commonly found in historical, legal, or academic texts discussing capital punishment, mob violence, or ancient practices. * The ancient law prescribed that a convicted blasphemer should be put to death by a group of lapidators. * The mob, acting as lapidators, surrounded the condemned man.

Advanced Usage
  • Historical/Judicial Context: The term is intrinsically linked to the act of stoning as a form of communal or judicial execution. It implies a group action, though it can refer to an individual within that group.
    • In the historical account, the sentence was carried out by appointed lapidators from the community.
Variants and Related Words
  • Lapidate (verb): To pelt or kill with stones.
    • The crowd threatened to lapidate the prisoner.
  • Lapidation (noun): The act or process of stoning someone to death.
    • Lapidation was a common form of capital punishment in some ancient societies.
Synonyms
  • Stoner: A more direct, modern, and less formal equivalent.
  • Executioner (context-specific): When referring specifically to one carrying out a death sentence by stoning.
Related Phrases
  • To stone someone to death: The common verbal phrase describing the action performed by a lapidator.
    • The angry mob attempted to stone the thief to death.
Noun
  1. an attacker who pelts the victim with stones (especially with intent to kill)

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