manslayer
(ˈmænsleɪə(r))
Forms: see slayer; also 5 monsle(e)r.
One who kills a man; a homicide; occas. one who commits manslaughter.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 16441 Þe man-slaer, he barabas. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxx. (Theodera) 258 Sa ma þu þe sauf fra hel quhare man-slaare sal ay duel. c 1425 Audelay XI Pains of Hell 37 in O.E. Misc. 211 Þese were proud men,..Extortioners, monslers, robbid mone one. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 238 b, He that hateth his brother is a man⁓sleer. 1611 Bible Num. xxxv. 12. 1635 Visct. Wentworth in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. III. 286 They that made me the manslayer of the E. of S{supt}. Albans, will impute my Lo. Mountnorris unto me for willfull and plaine murther. 1741 Richardson Pamela II. 281 All your Airs breathe as strongly of the Manslayer, as of the Libertine. 1835 Thirlwall Greece I. vi. 171 That the manslayer withdrew into a foreign land and did not return to his country, till [etc.]. |
† b. An executioner. Obs. rare—1.
| c 1380 Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 388 Þe kyng..sente for a man-sleere [Mark vi. 27]. |
So † ˈmanslaȝe Early ME. [OE. slaᵹa slayer].
| c 1000 ælfric Deut. v. 17 Ne beo þu manslaᵹa. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 53 Ah þah heo beoð..monslaȝen for heo slaȝeð heore aȝene saule. a 1225 St Marher. 11 Ichabbe isehen þene þurs of helle..ant te monslahe islein. |