empalement

There are in Turkey persons of great and strong sense, who would undergo empalement for the sake of certain opinions of Abubeker.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

After a short debate he was condemned to die on the following day, by the slow torture of empalement.

An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830 John Niles Hubbard 1856

When the stamina and petal fall, the empalement resembles a fungus, and nearly in shape a Scot's bonnet.

The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795

Little leaves of the empalement egg-shaped, sharp.

An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases William Withering 1770

The Filaments are twenty, awl-fliaped, fhorter than the corolla, and inferted in the empalement; The Anthtra fimple.

Arbustrum Americanum = The American grove, or, An alphabetical catalogue of forest trees and shrubs, natives of the American United States, arranged according to the Linnaean system : containing, the particular distinguishing characters of each genus, with plain, simple and familiar descriptions of the manner of growth, appearance, &c. of their several species and varieties; also, some hints of their uses in medicine, dyes, and domestic oeconomy 1785

The Corolla has five roundiih, concave, large petals, inferted in the empalement.

Arbustrum Americanum = The American grove, or, An alphabetical catalogue of forest trees and shrubs, natives of the American United States, arranged according to the Linnaean system : containing, the particular distinguishing characters of each genus, with plain, simple and familiar descriptions of the manner of growth, appearance, &c. of their several species and varieties; also, some hints of their uses in medicine, dyes, and domestic oeconomy 1785

The perianthiuftti the flower-cup or empalement properly fo called, is the mod common fpecies of calyr, and fltuated clofe to the fruflilication.

Arbustrum Americanum = The American grove, or, An alphabetical catalogue of forest trees and shrubs, natives of the American United States, arranged according to the Linnaean system : containing, the particular distinguishing characters of each genus, with plain, simple and familiar descriptions of the manner of growth, appearance, &c. of their several species and varieties; also, some hints of their uses in medicine, dyes, and domestic oeconomy 1785

"The huge misshapen fragments that choked this entrance, were slippery with moss, and splintered so pointedly by the forcible manner in which they had been broke from the mother-stone, that a fall (alluding to the perilous situation of one Claudio)" might have occasioned an imperfect empalement. "—

Romance Readers and Romance Writers: a Satirical Novel 1810