单词 | Phalarism |
释义 | † ˈPhalarism Obs. Also 7 Phalerism. [ad. Gr. ϕαλαρισµ-ός cruelty like that of Phalaris, the tyrant of Agrigentum, who caused those condemned to death by him to be roasted alive in a brazen bull, the maker himself being the first victim.] Inhuman cruelty; pleasure in the infliction of torture.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 278 b, This so great slaughter and bootchery,..so execrable Phalarisme and Tyranny. 1604Parsons 3rd Pt. Three Convers. Eng., Relation Trial 47 Two bookes of the Atheismes, and Phalerismes..of the ghospellers of our tymes. 1699Bentley Phal. Pref. 41 There's a certain Temper of Mind, that Cicero calls Phalarism, a Spirit like Phalaris's. |

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