Definition of "patibulary" [pa•tib•u•la•ry]

• Pertaining to the gallows or hanging. (adjective)

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• "Further on I shall attempt -- I write the word with a patibulary gesture -- in a sort of a Chopin variorum, to analyze the salient aspects, technical and aesthetic, of his music."
• "Nature for such a man, and for Nations that follow such, has her patibulary forks, and prisons of death everlasting: -- dost thou doubt it?"
• "For, merely setting husband-dead in place of one of this patibulary race,"