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Definition of Beheaded
1. Adjective. Having had the head cut off. "The beheaded prisoners"
Definition of Beheaded
1. Verb. (past of behead) ¹
2. Adjective. To have had your head cut off. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Beheaded
1. behead [v] - See also: behead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beheaded
Literary usage of Beheaded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Walks in London by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1894)
"Lady Jane Grey, beheaded, 1554. Arthur and Edmond Pole, grandsons of the ...
William, Viscount Stafford, beheaded, 1680. Sir John Eliot, died in the Tower, ..."
2. London and Its Environs: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1908)
"369) ; Anne Boleyn. headed 1536; Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, beheaded 1540;
Marf Pole, Counters of Salisbury, beheaded 1541 ; Queen Catharine How ..."
3. Walks in London by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1883)
"Sir Thomas Arundel, beheaded, 1552. John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, beheaded,
... Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, beheaded, 1554. Arthur and Edmund Pole, ..."
4. London and Its Environs: Including Excursions to Brighton, the Isle of Wight by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1885)
"Above the fire-place is a Latin inscription left by Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel,
eldest son of the Duke of Norfolk who was beheaded in 1572 for aspiring ..."
5. The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments Translated Out of the by Canadian Bible Society (1903)
"... and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the
prison, 28 And brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel ..."
6. The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet: Containing an Account of the by Enguerrand de Monstrelet (1853)
"When he had been strictly examined and tortured, he was beheaded and quartered
in the market-place of Mona, ... One of his servants was beheaded with him; ..."
7. Publications (1853)
"But the brother Claes said, " O no, no; it will not move me." Hans therefore
valiantly extended his neck, and was beheaded. ..."
8. The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris: Minister of the United States to by Gouverneur Morris (1888)
""The poor baker was beheaded according to custom, and carried in triumph through
the streets. He had been all night at work for the purpose of supplying the ..."
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