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Massacre denotes the promiscuous slaughter of many who
can not make resistance, or much resistance. Butchery refers
to cold-blooded cruelty in the killing of men as if they were brute
beasts. Carnage points to slaughter as producing the heaped-up
bodies of the slain.

I'll find a day to massacre them all,

And raze their faction and their family.

Shak.

If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds,

Brhold this pattern of thy butcheries.

Shak.

Such a scent I draw

Of carnage, prey innumerable !

Milton.

Mas"sa*cre, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Massacred (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Massacring (?).] [Cf. F. massacrer. See
Massacre, n.] 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.

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