Definition of "gibbetted" [gibbetted]

• Simple past tense and past participle of gibbet. (verb)

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• "His vengeance did not cease with the death: he ordered the head to be gibbetted at one end and the trunk at the other abutment of the Tigris bridge where the corpses of the vilest malefactors used to be exposed; and, some months afterwards, he insulted the remains by having them burned — the last and worst indignity which can be offered to a Moslem."
• "Typically, the resulting five parts (i.e., the four quarters of the body and the head) were parboiled to prevent them rotting too quickly, then gibbetted (put on public display) in different parts of the city or town to deter would-be traitors."
• "Between times most nations are gibbetted in this slashing epistle."