contorquere

contorquēre [CL] 1 to twist. b (fig.) to distort. c to wring (fig.), rack, torment. 9‥ contortis, aþrawenum ðrædum WW; veluti vepres interversos et contorsos J. Godard Ep. 221. b contortum scripti sensum More Ut. 91. c de se exponit hujus textus praecentor gravissima se contortum et †podogra et chiragra ad hujus clementissimi patris confugisse praesidia Gosc. Mir. Iv. lxiii; speciali recordatione miserorum conscientiam ~ebant Ailr. Serm. 415A. 2 to hurl, shoot; b (fig.). letifera ‥ tela totis viribus ~et G. Mon. I 5; alia sagitta, eodem ~ente, ‥ similem ictum suscepit Gir. IK I 4. b in hunc ‥ omnium odia telaque sine respectu ~ebantur Gildas EB 21 (cf. Bede HE I 14). 3 a to force, compel. b to extort. a s1163 rex ‥ jura ecclesiastica querebat conterere et quoslibet clericos ad secularia judicia ~ere Gerv. Cant. I 174. b 1274 contorsit de predicta Alicia viij s. Hund. I 137; to do extorcion, ~ere, de-, ex-, exigere CathA.

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