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poisoner

[ UK /pˈɔ‍ɪzənɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who kills with poison

How To Use poisoner In A Sentence

  • Oscar Wilde once said that "The fact of a man's being a poisoner is nothing against his poetry. John Galliano, Mel Gibson, Charlie Sheen -- poison and poetry
  • As a chemist by profession and the granddaughter of a suspected poisoner by circumstance, she is perfectly placed.
  • At the period of the Voysins and the Brinvilliers, there were nothing but poisoners abroad; and against these, a court was expressly instituted, called ardente, because it condemned them to the flames. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
  • This case also illustrates the difficulties which can be encountered in carrying out treatment with adolescent self-poisoners.
  • Soon they were dead, victims of a mysterious poisoner.
  • From the best authorities, it appears that the Hebrew word, which has been rendered _venefica_ and _witch_, means a poisoner and divineress, a dabbler in spells, or fortune-teller. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
  • You'd make a good psychologist, executioner, black widow, arsenic poisoner, heretic queen or commentator.
  • And, perchance still failing, then might I expect the common bravo's steel in my back or the common poisoner's philter in my wine, my meat, or bread. Chapter 11
  • He admitted that the term magician was not as clearly delineated as witch and poisoner28. To Prevent a "Shipwreck of Souls": Johann Weyer and "De Praestigiis Daemonum." Elisa Slattery
  • The art of poisoning was therefore known to the Rosicrucians, and, although there is no reason to suppose it was ever practised by the heads of the Fraternity, it is possible that the inspirers of the poisoners may have been perverted Rosicrucians, that is to say, students of those portions of the Cabala relating to magic both of the necromantic and venefic varieties, who turned the scientific knowledge which the Fraternity of the Rosy Cross used for healing to a precisely opposite and deadly purpose. Secret Societies And Subversive Movements
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