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carnifices

carnifices is the plural of carnifex.

Meaning of carnifex

Noun

carnifex (plural carnifexes or carnifices)

  1. (archaic, historical) An executioner.
    • “[T]he carnifex, or executioner there, is brandishing his gulley ower near the King's face, seeing he is within reach of his weapon.”1831, Walter Scott, Fortunes of Nigel

Questions about carnifices

What is carnifices the plural of?
Carnifices is the plural of carnifex.

Words near carnifices in the dictionary

  1. carniferous
  2. carnifex
  3. carnifexes
  4. carnification
  5. carnifications
  6. carnifices
  7. carnificial
  8. carnified
  9. carnifies
  10. carnify
  11. carnifying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carnifices (page history and authors); carnifex (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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