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Definition of Malefactors
1. malefactor [n] - See also: malefactor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Malefactors
Literary usage of Malefactors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Nathanael Emmons ...: With a Memoir of His Life by Nathanael Emmons (1842)
"AND one of the malefactors which were hanged, railed on him, saying, If thoa be
Christ, save thyself and us. But the other answering, rebuked him. saying. ..."
2. The Orbis Pictus of John Amos Comeniusby Johann Amos Comenius by Johann Amos Comenius (1887)
"malefactors, 1. are brought from the Prison, 3. (where they are wont to be
tortured) by Serjeants, 2. or dragg'd with a Horse, \ 5. to place of Execution. ..."
3. The Mercersburg Review by Alumni Association, Pa.) Marshall College (Mercersburg (1851)
"Luke xxiii : 32,39-43, " And there were also two others, malefactors, led with
Him to be put ... And one of the malefactors, which were hanged, railed, &c. ..."
4. The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet: Containing an Account of the by Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Bon-Joseph Dacier, Pierre Desrey (1867)
"At this time, the officers of justice in Paris arrested many poor creatures,
thieves and other malefactors ; some of whom, for their crimes, were hanged on ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"The heads, " - salted and pickled, of those infamous malefactors, who for the **
multitude of their crimes have suffered a just and ignominious *• *• death ..."
6. The Visigothic Code: (Forum Judicum) by Visigoths, Samuel Parsons Scott (1910)
"Concerning malefactors and their Advisers. IV. Concerning Those who are Guilty
of Acts of Witchcraft, or any Injury, towards Men, Animals, or any kind of ..."
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