Word Meanings - TORMENTISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Torture; torment. Chaucer.

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• TORMENTFUL
  Full of torment; causing, or accompainied by, torment; excruciating. Tillotson.
• TORTURE
  rack, torture; probably akin to Gr. tre`pein to turn, G. drechsein to turn on a lathe, and perhaps to E. queer. Cf. Contort, Distort, 1. Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind. Shak. Ghastly spasm
• TORMENTOR
  An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels. Hebert. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures. Jer. Taylor. Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with
• TORMENTIL
  A rosaceous herb , the root of which is used as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes, or tormina, in diarrhea. (more info) tormentilla, Sp. tormentila; all fr. L. tormentum pain. So called
• TORMENT
  An engine for casting stones. Sir T. Elyot. 2. Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind. Chaucer. The more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me. Milton. 3. That which gives
• TORMENTISE
  Torture; torment. Chaucer.
• TORMENTER
  1. One who, or that which, torments; a tormentor. 2. An executioner. Chaucer.
• TORMENTRY
  Anything producing torment, annoyance, or pain. Chaucer.
• TORTURER
  One who tortures; a tormentor.
• TORMENTING
  Causing torment; as, a tormenting dream. -- Tor*ment"ing*ly, adv.
• TORMENTRESS
  A woman who torments. Fortune ordinarily cometh after to whip and punish them, as the scourge and tormentress of glory and honor. Holland.
• PRETORTURE
  To torture beforehand. Fuller.
• SELF-TORMENTOR
  One who torments himself.
• SELF-TORTURE
  The act of inflicting pain on one's self; pain inflicted on one's self.