MASSACRE

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MASSACRE , a wholesale indiscriminate killing of persons, and also, in a transferred sense, of animals. The word is adopted from the

French

FRENCH
CHESTER
- CHESTER
- CHESTER, EARLS OF
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CHESTER
- CHESTER
- CHESTER, EARLS OF
(1850– )
FRENCH,
NICHOLAS
(1604-1678)

; but its origin is obscure. The meaning and the old form macecle seem to point to it being a corruption of the Lat. macellum,

butcher

BUTCHER

shop

SHOP

or shambles, hence

meat

MEAT

market; this is probably from the

root

mac-, seen in hxeoOat, to fight, aXalpa,

sword

SWORD (0. Eng. sweord; ultimately from an Indo-
European
- EUROPEAN
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
meaning to wound)

, and Lat. mactare, to

sacrifice

SACRIFICE (from Lat. sacrificium; sacer, holy, and facere, to make)

. Another derivation connects with the Old Low Ger. matsken, to cut in pieces; cf. mod. Ger. metzeln, to massacre.

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