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Poiˊsoning
Poiˊsoning by a statute in the time of Henry VIII. was made high treason; after the repealing of this law the punishment inflicted
was to be put alive into a cauldron of water, and to be boiled to death; but now it
is only hanging, it being felony without the benefit of clergy.
Definition taken from
The Universal Etymological English Dictionary,
edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)
Poisonˊd [with the Vulgar] *
Polygon