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Webster 1913 Edition
Massacre
Mas′sa-cre
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Massacred
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Massacring
.] To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter; – limited to the killing of human beings.
If James should be pleased to
massacre
them all, as Maximian had massacred
the Theban legion. Macaulay.