"Burkism" meaning in English

See Burkism in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: Burke + -ism, after William Burke. See Burke and Hare murders. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|Burke|ism}} Burke + -ism Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} Burkism (uncountable)
  1. (archaic) Murder for the purpose of selling the body for dissection. Wikipedia link: Burke and Hare murders Tags: archaic, uncountable

Download JSON data for Burkism meaning in English (1.2kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Burke",
        "3": "ism"
      },
      "expansion": "Burke + -ism",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Burke + -ism, after William Burke. See Burke and Hare murders.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Burkism (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ism",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Murder for the purpose of selling the body for dissection."
      ],
      "id": "en-Burkism-en-noun--PagbGNr",
      "links": [
        [
          "Murder",
          "murder"
        ],
        [
          "sell",
          "sell"
        ],
        [
          "body",
          "body"
        ],
        [
          "dissection",
          "dissection"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Murder for the purpose of selling the body for dissection."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Burke and Hare murders"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Burkism"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Burke",
        "3": "ism"
      },
      "expansion": "Burke + -ism",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Burke + -ism, after William Burke. See Burke and Hare murders.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Burkism (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ism",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Murder for the purpose of selling the body for dissection."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Murder",
          "murder"
        ],
        [
          "sell",
          "sell"
        ],
        [
          "body",
          "body"
        ],
        [
          "dissection",
          "dissection"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Murder for the purpose of selling the body for dissection."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Burke and Hare murders"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Burkism"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (384852d and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.