lingchi

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See also: língchí

English

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Etymology

From Mandarin 凌遲 (língchí).

Noun

lingchi (uncountable)

  1. A form of execution used in China from roughly 900 to 1905 C.E., the "death by a thousand cuts", in which the condemned was killed by methodical removal of body parts with a knife.
    Synonym: slow slicing
    • 2007 July 25, Roberta Smith, “Figures Moving as if in a Trance Across an Isolated, Lawless Island”, in The New York Times‎:
      The face of the dying man in the lingchi video monotonously evokes Maria Falconetti in Carl Theodor Dreyer ’s 1928 “Passion of Joan of Arc.”
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