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Definition of Impalers
1. impaler [n] - See also: impaler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impalers
Literary usage of Impalers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1880)
"... there was no crime more heinous in the eyes of these moralists than that of
abandoning a subject-race to impalers, who have come to the determination ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... deadfalls, impalers, knife traps and poisons; animals consciously and
unconsciously aiding in capture; fire in the form of torches, beacons, ..."
3. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History by William Whewell (1847)
"... the calyx is called the impalement, and the sepals the impalers; the petals
are called the leaves of the flower; the stamens with their anthers are the ..."
4. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History by William Whewell (1847)
"... the calyx is called the impalement, and the sepals the impalers; the petals
are called the leaves of the flower; the stamens with their anthers are the ..."
5. The Pamphleteer by Abraham John Valpy (1823)
"... a court, which openly encourages and proclaims the most abominable and unnatural
vices ; which patronises murderers, impalers, crucifiers, ..."
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