decapitee

From decapit(ate) +‎ -ee.

decapitee (plural decapitees)

1. One who is decapitated.
   • 1905 May 29, “Better Times Expected by Frank Selee’s Colts: The Chicago Team Is Strong in Fielding and Has a Superfluity of Good Pitchers, But Has Batted Poorly Up to Date”, in The Pittsburg Press, volume 22, number 148, Pittsburg, Pa., page four:

     Wicker has not been used at all this season, but his great work of the last two years seems to preclude the posibility of Bob’s being the decapitee.

   • 1929, Time, page 6:

     The most interesting (and clearest) was one of a decapitation carried out in the presence of a mandarin and an appreciative crowd of villagers. The utility of the queue was noteworthy. The decapitee was kneeling.

   • 1931, Sir William Schwenck Gilbert: A Topsy-Turvy Adventure, page 5:

     For, observe: “Ko-Ko” reels off a “little list” of eligible victims (regardless of his subsequent statement that “flirting is the only crime punishable with decapitation”), and then apparently forgets all about it when “Pooh-Bah” and “Pish-Tush” assure him that he himself is the obvious decapitee.

   • 1933 August 2, Marshall Evening Messenger, fifty-seventh year, number 39, Marshall, Tex., page four:

     Moreover, instead of murder, the act of decapitation contains no malice or evil intent. It is a purely impersonal mater—except to the decapitee.

   • 2009, Lisa M. Bitel, “Relics”, in Landscape with Two Saints: How Genovefa of Paris and Brigit of Kildare Built Christianity in Barbarian Europe, Oxford University Press, page 199:

     Pilgrims may still visit her head, along with the skulls of many other holy men and virgins in the church of the classic decapitee, John the Baptist, at Lumiar.

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