torturern.
One who or that which inflicts or causes torture; a tormentor; spec. one who executes judicial torture.
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society > authority > punishment > torture > [noun] > torturer
pinerOE
wiþerlaȝec1175
tormentorc1290
pincher1368
tortor1570
torturer1597
torture-monger1615
excruciator1864
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > [noun] > one who perverts
adulterer?c1430
writher1498
perverter?a1500
wrester1533
corruptera1538
wringerc1560
racker1565
wreather1566
hackera1603
wracker1719
torturer1830
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. ii. 194 I play the torturer by small and small To lengthen out the worst that must be spoken. View more context for this quotation
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 52 b/2 Two torturors will deprive a man of life..the torturer of greefe and sorrowe is the most cruellest.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. vi. 215 Thou King, send out For Torturors ingenious. View more context for this quotation
1780 Beckford Italy (1834) I. 69 That respectable corps, the torturers of butterflies.
1805 R. Southey Madoc in Aztlan ii. 114 Thou know'st how manfully These tribes..in bonds Defy their torturers.
1830 W. Scott Ayrshire Trag. iii. i A torturer of phrases into sonnets.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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