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decapitatio

decapitatio , beheading, decapitation. b topping (of trees). rememoratur abbas sancti [Eadmundi] sanctae ~onis ac ‥ innuit monachis utrum ‥ caput ‥ martyris decollatum cum corpore jam sit solidatum Herm. Arch. 20; s1186 de Hugonis de Laci, a securibus male securi, dolo Hibernensium ‥ ~one Gir. EH II 35; s1312 [P. de Gavastone] abscissione capitis est peremptus. ista ‥ comitis ~o ‥ odium ‥ inter regem et comites suscitavit G. Ed. II Bridl. 44; 1337 pro ~one iiij felonum decapitatorum ad sectam regis (KRAc 19/40) Cal. Scot. III 391; licet ‥clerici mereantur puniri tali †decapicione Wycl. Blasph. 196 (cf. ib.: si utilius esset ecclesie et persone decapitate mori aliter); s1381 episcopus ‥ Johannem [Littestere] ‥ addixit ‥ ~oni Wals. HA II 8; s1415 ~onis sentenciam subiere Id. YN 457.  b 13‥ translata est carecta spinea ad ~onem quercuum, que nunquam revertebatur ad spinas et tribulos cariand’ (Ch. Pipewell) MonA V 435a (cf. ib. 435b: de ~one quercuum in Personeswode).

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