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Word Meanings - INFLICT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or suffer; as, to inflict blows; to inflict a wound with a dagger; to inflict severe pain by ingratitude; to inflict

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To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or suffer; as, to inflict blows; to inflict a wound with a dagger; to inflict severe pain by ingratitude; to inflict punishment on an offender; to inflict the penalty of death on a criminal. What heart could wish, what hand inflict, this dire disgrace Drygen. The persecution and the pain That man inflicts on infero-ior kinds. Cowper.

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  • PLACEMENT
    1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
  • PLACENTARY
    Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
  • PLACE-KICK
    To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
  • INFLICT
    To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or suffer; as, to inflict blows; to inflict a wound with a dagger; to inflict severe pain by ingratitude; to inflict
  • PLACER
    One who places or sets. Spenser.
  • PLACE
    Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
  • INFLICTION
    1. The act of inflicting or imposing; as, the infliction of torment, or of punishment. 2. That which is inflicted or imposed, as punishment, disgrace, calamity, etc. His severest inflictions are in themselves acts of justice and righteousness.
  • ENJOIN
    To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on. This is a suit to enjoin the defendants from disturbing the plaintiffs. Kent. Note: Enjoin has the force of pressing admonition with authority; as, a parent enjoins
  • INFLICTER
    One who inflicts. Godis the sole and immadiate inflicter of such strokes. South.
  • PLACENTA
    The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi
  • IMPOSE
    To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination. (more info) Etym: 1. To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit. Cakes of salt and barley did impose Within a wicker basket. Chapman. 2. To lay as a
  • PLACEMAN
    One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott.
  • ENJOINMENT
    Direction; command; authoritative admonition. Sir T. Browne.
  • PLACENTIOUS
    Pleasing; amiable. "A placentious person." Fuller.
  • PLACEBO
    The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.
  • IMPOSER
    One who imposes. The imposers of these oaths might repent. Walton.
  • PLACENTIFEROUS
    Having or producing a placenta.
  • PLACENTATION
    The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals.
  • IMPOSEMENT
    Imposition.
  • PLACE-PROUD
    Proud of rank or office. Beau. & Fl.
  • REPLACEMENT
    The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
  • COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
    1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like
  • APLACENTAL
    Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.
  • DISPLACER
    The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement. (more info) 1. One that displaces.
  • BY-PLACE
    A retired or private place.
  • SELF-COMPLACENCY
    The quality of being self-complacent. J. Foster.
  • MISPLACE
    To put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence.
  • EMPLACEMENT
    A putting in, or assigning to, a definite place; localization; as, the emplacement of a structure.
  • SUPERIMPOSE
    To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum. -- Su`per*im`po*si"tion, n.

 

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