Careful Words

slaughter (n.)

slaughter (v.)

  He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter.

Old Testament: Isaiah liii. 7.

  As an ox goeth to the slaughter.

Old Testament: Proverbs vii. 22; Jeremiah xi. 19.

Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne,

And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.

Thomas Gray (1716-1771): Elegy in a Country Churchyard. Stanza 17.