[f. THUG + -ERY.] prec.; also transf.
1838. Morn. Post, 16 Jan., 1/4. It does not appear, however, that any of the three who constituted the ‘select committee’ were necessarily the executioners of this new system of Thuggery.
1839. [see THUG b].
1849. E. B. Eastwick, Dry Leaves, 58. The Amírs had no more power to prevent the robberies and murders which occurred during the march of our troops, than we have to extinguish the system of Thuggery or Dacoitism in our own province.
1865. Reader, 26 Aug., 225/1. Ecclesiastical thuggery.
1870. Nation, No. 255. 318/1. If Indian Thugs had despatched only Thugs, the Indian Government need not have stirred. Let Thuggery exterminate Thuggery—a good riddance to it.
