patibulary

comparative more patibulary · superlative most patibulary

1. archaichumorousPertaining to the gallows or hanging.

   And then, when he had finished his supper, he would get out his collection of patibulary treasures, […] the various bits of gallows rope […]

   1926, Hope Mirrlees, chapter 18, in Lud-in-the-Mist

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   Masius […] conceiveth thereby some kind of crucifixion, at least some patibulary affixion after he was slain, and so represented unto the people until toward the evening.

   1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.21