The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decollation \De`col*la"tion\, n. [L. decollatio: cf. F. d['e]collation.]
The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.
A painting representing the beheading of a saint or martyr, esp. of St. John the Baptist. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
n. The act of beheading someone.
Usage examples of "decollation".
It is needless also to remember what Miracles of this nature were performed by the very Bloud of his late Majesty of Blessed memory, after whose decollation by the inhuman Barbarity of the Regicides, the reliques of that were gathered on Chips and in Handkerchieffs by the pious Devotes, who could not but think so great a suffering in so honourable and pious a Cause, would be attended by an extraordinary assistance of God, and some more then ordinary a miracle: nor did their Faith deceive them in this there point, being so many hundred that found the benefit of it.