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Scaphism

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(n.) An ancient mode of punishing criminals among the Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the sun and to insects until he died.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Scaphism'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/scaphism.html. 1828.
 
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