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Definition of Electrocutioner
1. Noun. An executioner who uses electricity to kill the condemned person.
Definition of Electrocutioner
1. Noun. a person who carries out an execution by means of electricity ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Electrocutioner
Literary usage of Electrocutioner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Canada Law Journal by Law Society of Upper Canada, William S. Hein & Company, Canadian Bar Association (1916)
"The public hangman or chief electrocutioner can by virtue of his office and under
warrant from the state legally and morally deprive of his life at the ..."
2. News Writing, the Gathering, Handling and Writing of News Stories by Matthew Lyle Spencer (1917)
"When the shock was at its height, his grip tightened to the crucifix, but as the
electrocutioner snapped the switch off the cross slipped from the relaxed ..."
3. A Manual of Legal Medicine: For the Use of Practitioners and Students of by Justin Herold (1898)
"Are we to interpret the law to mean that when the current is turned on at, say,
seventeen hundred volts, the electrocutioner has the right to vary the ..."
4. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Classified and Arranged So by Peter Mark Roget (1911)
"... electric- chair; mecate. house of correction &c. (prison) 752. gaol-, jail-er;
executioner; electrocutioner; lyncher; hang-, heads-man; Jack Ketch. ..."
5. Documents of the Senate of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1906)
"... the State's prison and the electrocutioner's chair. The tale of bricks is
great and there is no straw. One of our Catholic agents was obliged to remove ..."
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