Definition of Electric chair

1. Noun. An instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person. "The murderer was sentenced to die in the chair"

Exact synonyms: Chair, Death Chair, Hot Seat
Generic synonyms: Instrument Of Execution

Definition of Electric chair

1. Noun. A device used for performing execution by electrocution. ¹

2. Noun. An electrically powered wheelchair ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Electric Chair

electric bath
electric battery
electric bell
electric bill
electric blanket
electric blankets
electric blue
electric burn
electric car
electric cardiac pacemaker
electric cars
electric cataract
electric catfish
electric cautery
electric cell
electric chair (current term)
electric chairs
electric charge
electric charges
electric chorea
electric circuit
electric circuits
electric clock
electric company
electric conductivity
electric cord
electric countershock
electric current
electric currents
electric dermatome

Literary usage of Electric chair

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the ... Annual Congress of Correction of the American by American Correctional Association (1903)
"Gardner halted a moment at the stool of the electric chair, deliberately opened his Bible, and with a quiet, but impressive voice, read Matthew 5 :43-45. ..."

2. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by New York (State). Constitutional Convention (1916)
"The first time he over thought of the electric chair at all was when the ... Don't ask these twelve men to say whether a man shall go to the electric chair. ..."

3. Breach of Trust: Physician Participation in Executions in the United States by American College of Physicians, Human Rights Watch (Organization), Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.) (1994)
"... the commission recommended electrocution as the most humane method of execution, New York State approved the construction of an electric chair in 1888. ..."

4. A Manual of Legal Medicine: For the Use of Practitioners and Students of by Justin Herold (1898)
"... its way to choose an uncertain method, for it does not of necessity follow that even the strong current received in the electric chair produces death. ..."

5. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1907)
"Nothing is more clear than that the gallows and the electric chair do not prevent ... The advocates of the scaffold and the electric chair are mere maudlin ..."

6. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1915)
"A. The electric chair. Q. You knew that before you shot lier? A. I read it enough in the newspapers to know that a man that commits a deliberate murder, ..."

7. Penology in the United States by Louis Newton Robinson (1922)
"Under the shadows of the gallows or the electric chair, men are brought to a realization of their guilt and of the wrong which they have done to society. ..."

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