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The English word guillotine came to us as an allusion to Joseph Guillotin (1738-1814), a French Doctor Who proposed that an efficient machine should be used to carry out capital punishment. The first machine was built in 1791 and used the following year.

The word was used as a noun in 1973 and as a verb in 1974.

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