意味(日本語)

電気いすで死刑にする

語源

• cut-, cuss- : L.cutere = to strike, shake, (打つ, ゆさぶる), 過去分子形cussus

意味(英語)

• (verb-transitive) To kill with electricity: a worker who was electrocuted by a high-tension wire.
• (verb-transitive) To execute (a condemned prisoner) by means of electricity.

例文

• The object was to deter evildoers by surrounding the penalty with scientific horror, [Footnote: Hence also the new lingual atrocity, the word "electrocute," derived from "execute" by decapitation and the addition of "electro"] and the idea had its origin in the accidents which formerly occurred much more frequently than now.