| 单词 | judicial torture |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjudicial torture a. The infliction of severe bodily pain, as punishment or a means of persuasion; spec. judicial torture, inflicted by a judicial or quasi-judicial authority, for the purpose of forcing an accused or suspected person to confess, or an unwilling witness to give evidence or information; a form of this (often in plural). to put to (the) torture, to inflict torture upon, to torture. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > [noun] tintreghc893 tormentc1290 tormentry1375 tormentisec1405 extort1541 torture1551 discruciament1593 discruciation1597 supplice1646 carnifice1657 society > authority > punishment > torture > [verb (transitive)] bethrowOE tintreghec1175 tormentc1290 pinse?c1335 anguisha1425 pincha1425 to put to (the) torture1551 agonize1570 torture1594 scorchc1595 flay1782 society > authority > punishment > torture > [noun] > infliction of tormentingc1290 torture1551 torturing1633 1551 in Acts Privy Council (1891) III. 407 Assisting to the sayd Commissioners for the putting the prisoners..to suche tortours as they shall think expedient. 1608 D. Price Prælium & Præmium 21 To punish the bad, and to prouide some sharpe and fearful tortors for them. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iii. i. 122 You did deuise Strange Tortures for Offendors. View more context for this quotation 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures iv. 10 We put the Captain and Pilot to torture, who instantly confessed. 1708 Act 7 Anne c. 21 §5 After [1 July 1709] no Person accused of any Capital Offence or other Crime in Scotland, shall suffer, or be subject or liable to any Torture. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (1830) IV. xxv. 326 They erected a rack for torture. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) III. xxv. 393 Pisander moved that the persons..should be put to the torture, that all their accomplices might be known. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1871) I. i. 16 According to law, torture..could not..be inflicted on an English subject. 1882 S. R. Gardiner Hist. Eng. (1884) VI. lxv. 359 (note) 2 Torture had been allowed [in England] by custom as inflicted by the prerogative, but not by law... Torture was inflicted as late as 1640 by prerogative. < as lemmas |
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