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noun
1.
a device for beheading a person by means of a heavy blade that is dropped between two posts serving as guides: widely used during the French revolution.
2.
an instrument for surgically removing the tonsils.
3.
any of various machines in which a vertical blade between two parallel uprights descends to cut or trim metal, stacks of paper, etc.
verb (used with object)
4.
to behead by the guillotine.
5.
to cut with or as if with a guillotine.
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Guillotined
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Origin:
1785–95; named after J. I. Guillotin (1738–1814), French physician who urged its use
1785–95; named after J. I. Guillotin (1738–1814), French physician who urged its use
Related forms
un·guil·lo·tined, adjective
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Word Origin & History
guillotine
1793, in allusion to Joseph Guillotin (1738-1814), Fr. physician, who as deputy to the National Assembly (1789) proposed, for humanitarian and efficiency reasons, that capital punishment be carried out by beheading quickly and cleanly on a machine, which was built in 1791 and first used the next year.
EXPANDThe verb is first attested 1794.
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Medical Dictionary
guillotine guil·lo·tine (gĭl'ə-tēn', gē'ə-)
n.
A ring-shaped instrument with a sliding knifeblade running through it, used in cutting off an enlarged tonsil.
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guillotine [(gil-uh-teen, gee-uh-teen)]A machine designed for beheading people quickly and with minimal pain. The guillotine, which used a large falling knife blade, was devised by a physician, Joseph Guillotin, during the French Revolution and was used as the official method of execution in France until the twentieth century.
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