Definition of "carnificial" []

• Of or pertaining to a carnifex or executioner, or a butcher.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "He was happy enough to seize the opportunity to relieve himself and handed over his wide-bladed carnificial sword (which I in theory was not supposed to touch) and his fuligin cloak (which I was forbidden to wear, though I was already taller than most of the journeymen) so that from a distance it would appear that there had been no substitution."
• "See my poor dexter, abridged to one thumb, one finger, and a stump, -- by the blow of my adversary's weapon, however, and not by any carnificial knife."
• "See my poor dexter, abridged to one thumb, one finger, and a stump, — by the blow of my adversary’s weapon, however, and not by any carnificial knife."