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excruciare

excruciare [CL] , to torture. b to torment (mentally). c (pr. ppl. as adj.) excruciating, causing pain. tali femineam sontes molimine spinam / excruciare student membratim quatenus ossa / ‥ vacuarent cruda medullis Aldh. VirgV 1995; a1081 plerique ‥ ante baptismum ‥ diversis ~iati poenis de corpore migraverunt Lanfr. Ep. 33 (49); s1135 R‥. Saresbiriensis episcopus ‥ captus et ~iatus miserandum sortitus est exterminium H. Hunt. HA VIII 1; Jacobus, Simon, et Thadeus enecati, Johannes veneno et exilio ~iatus, Thomas transfossus Hon. GA 578A; sancti ‥ ~iati nichil senserunt P. Cornw. Disp. 149.  b ut ‥ sit ‥ commissus duro custodi qui ejus animam immisericorditer ‥ ~iet Byrht. V. Ecgwini 393; dolor acerrimus pectus tenerrimum / angit, excruciat, et torquet Walt. Wimb. Carm. 264.  c non est in calice liquor excrucians, / non acet pristino sapore varians Walt. Wimb. Carm. 155.

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