beheadal
(bɪˈhɛdəl)
[f. prec. + -al2 5, which see. Apparently in no Dict. hitherto.]
Beheading, execution by decapitation.
| 1859 Wingfield Tour Dalmatia 6 The drums announcing Mary's beheadal. 1881 Besant & Rice Whittington ii. 54 The beheadal of Sheriff Richard Lions. 1882–3 Schaff in Herzog's Encycl. Rel. Knowl. II. 1191 The reason for the beheadal was jealousy at John's preponderant influence with the people. |