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
Additional info about word: 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 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.