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carnage|ˈkɑːnɪdʒ|
[a. F. carnage (16th c. in Littré), ad. It. carnaggio ‘carnage, slaughter, murther; also all manner of flesh meate’ (Florio 1611):—late L. carnāticum flesh-meat, also, the flesh-meat supplied by tenants to their feudal lords.
OFr. had the corresp. word charnage, ONF. carnage, ‘flesh of animals, meat, feast of flesh, season or day during which flesh is eaten’; it still exists dialectally.]
†1. (See quots.) Obs. (only in Dicts.)
1656Blount Glossogr., Carnage, flesh-time, or the season wherein 'tis lawful to eat flesh. Also a term in Venery, signifying that flesh which is given the dogs after hunting. 1662so in Phillips. 1721–1800Bailey, Carnage, Flesh that is given to Dogs after the Chace.
2. Carcases collectively: a heap of dead bodies, esp. of men slain in battle. ? Obs. (or confused with next.)
1667Milton P.L. x. 268 Such a sent I [Death] draw Of carnage, prey innumerable. 1714Gay Trivia ii. 471 As vultures o'er a camp..Snuff up the future carnage of the fight. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) II. 124 The animals of the forest..mostly live upon accidental carnage. 1842Barham Ingold. Leg., Black Mousquetaire, Where those, who scorn'd to fly or yield In one promiscuous carnage lie.
3. The slaughter of a great number, esp. of men; butchery, massacre.
Frequent in Holland, then rare till late in the 18th c.
1600Holland Livy ii. 16 The carnage and execution was no lesse after the conflict than during the fight. 1601― Pliny vii. vii, Such as delight only in carnage and bloudshed. 1696Phillips, Carnage, a great slaughter. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. I. xiii. 281 A slight resistance was followed by a dreadful carnage. 1813Byron Br. Abydos ii. xx, Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease! He makes a solitude, and calls it—peace!
b. Slaughter personified.
1814Byron Lara ii. x, Carnage smiled upon her daily dead. 1816Wordsw. Thanksgiv. Ode viii, Yea, Carnage is Thy daughter.
4. Comb., as carnage-field, carnage-lover; carnage-coloured, carnage-covered, carnage-loving adjs.
1721Cibber Refusal ii, These Carnage Lovers have such a Meanness in their Souls. 1800Campbell Pleas. Hope 92 Carnage-cover'd fields. 1826E. Irving Babylon I. ii. 90 The dragon, carnage-coloured, signifies Rome. Ibid. II. vi. 131 The carnage-loving character of the infidel Anti-christ. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. (1857) III. ii. vi. viii. 121 One of those Carnage-fields, such as you read of by the name ‘Glorious Victory’. |
