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n. - Pelting with stones.

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Usage examples (19)
  • We're hearing references to lapidation in the chatter.
  • This custom of lapidation, in token of hate, is an ancient practice, still common in the East.
  • But the French text, which is the more fundamental, refers to lapidation, that is, stoning, not "beating."
  • Bochart (Hierozoicon ii. 854) notices the Avium Avis Ruch and taking the pulli was followed by lapidation on the part of the parent bird.
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