tormentorn.

Brit.

/tɔːˈmɛntə/, U.S.

/tɔrˈmɛn(t)ər/

Forms: Also Middle English–1800s -er.

Etymology: Middle English and Anglo-Norman tormentour = Old French tor- , tourmenteur , earlier -teour , -teor (c1150 in Godefroy) < Latin type *tormentātōr-em , agent-noun < tormentāre to torment v.

One who or that which torments.

1. An officer who inflicts torture or cruelty; an official torturer; an executioner. Also transferred.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > torture > [noun] > torturer

pinerOE

wiþerlaȝec1175

tormentorc1290

pincher1368

tortor1570

torturer1597

torture-monger1615

excruciator1864

c1290 St. Edmund 43 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 298 His luþere tormentores þat beoten him so sore.

a1350 St. Andrew 171 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 6 Þe turmentours..Toke his bodi with bitter brayde, Vnto þe cros þai gun it bend.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xviii. 34 His lord wroth, tok hym to tourmenturs [a1425 L.V. turmentouris, 1582 Rheims tormenters, 1611 King James tormentors], til that he paiede al the dette.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 185 b/2 The tormentour as he had smyten of his heed both his eyen sterte out of his heed.

a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 66/2 He that playeth the sowdayne is percase a sowter. Yet if one should..calle him by his owne name..one of his tormentors might hap to breake his [= one's] head.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 25 Such, who..are holden for infamous, as Sergeants, Hangmen, Tormentours.

1895 H. R. Haggard Heart of World xxv That your souls be handed over to the tormentors of the under-world.

2. One who or that which persistently inflicts intense pain, suffering, vexation, or annoyance.In quot. 1642 humorously: = teaser n.¹ 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > [noun]

roodOE

thornc1230

prickc1384

rack?a1425

travailerc1450

goading1548

twinge1548

goad1553

tormentor1553

cut1568

stingera1577

butcher1579

torture1612

bosom-devil1651

wound1844

knife-edge1876

nemesis1933

1553 T. Becon Relikes of Rome (1563) 199 They dissent both in the tormentours and in the tormentes of the soules.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 137 These words hereafter thy tormentors be.

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 19 Certainly this tormenter of semicolons is as good at dismembring and slitting sentences.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 447. ¶10 They will naturally become their own Tormentors.

1751 Affecting Narr. H.M.S. Wager 84 The Prospect of that horridest Tormenter, Famine, [was] continually before our Eyes.

1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 271 A host of tormentors, in the shape of flies,..persecuting the poor animal.

1897 ‘Ouida’ Massarenes viii The person whose instructress and tormentor she was.

3. An instrument that torments in some way.

†a. Some device for catching fleas. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > pest control > [noun] > device for catching or killing fleas

tormentor1609

flea-powder1699

flea collar1953

1609 T. Heywood Cries of Rome in Rape Lucrece in Wks. (1874) V. 254 Buy a very fine Mouse-trap, or a tormentor for your Fleaes.

1622 J. Taylor Trav. Twelve-pence (1635) B vij b Of Mowse Traps, and tormentors to kill Fleas.

a1625 J. Fletcher Bonduca ii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Gggg3^v/2 Daughter. Are they not our tormentors? Car. Tormentors? Flea-traps.

1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. iv. 22 in Wks. II Buy a Mouse-trap, a Mouse-trap, or a Tormentor for a Flea.

b. plural. A long-handled fork used for taking the meat from the coppers on board ship; also, Scottish ‘an implement on which to toast bannocks, etc.’ ( Eng. Dial. Dict.); in quot. 1866 (singular), a piercing implement carried by excise officers.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > fork

prong1626

carving-fork1678

flesh-fork1679

tormentor1707

1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 84 He [sc. a sea-cook] is never without a Pair of Tormentors in his Hand.

1823 J. Galt Ringan Gilhaize I. ii. 22 Toasting an oaten bannock on a pair of tormentors.

1866 W. J. Fitzpatrick Sham Squire 18 Sham made a violent pass at Peck with his tormentor.

1898 F. T. Bullen Cruise ‘Cachalot’ xv. 186 The cook uncovered his coppers, plunged his tormentors therein, and produced such a succession of ugly corpses of fowls as I had never seen before.

c. A wheel-harrow of which each tine is a small share or hoe, for breaking up stiff soil.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harrowing equipment > [noun] > harrow > types of harrow

drag1388

ox-harrow1465

drag-harrow1744

bush-harrow1770

twitch harrow1771

brake1786

crab-harrow1796

twitch drag1799

tormentor1808

flag-harrow1845

chain-harrow1870

pitch-pole1929

1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon v. 121 Scarifiers, scufflers, shims, and broad shares of various constructions,..called under the general name of tormentors.

1882 F. W. P. Jago Anc. Lang. & Dial. Cornwall Tormentor, an agricultural implement for breaking up the clods of a ploughed field.

d. plural. A slang name for riding-spurs.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > art of horse-riding > use of hands and legs > using spurs > spur

spurc725

Ripon1631

heel spur1687

prick spur1688

Brummagem1823

goad spur1838

boot-spur1847

tormentor1875

1875 G. J. Whyte-Melville Riding Recoll. (1879) iv. 59 Fordham..wholly repudiates ‘the tormentors’, arguing that they only make a horse shorten his stride, and ‘shut up’.

(a) Theatre. (See quots.)

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > sides

side-scene1675

side wing1698

slips1771

prompt sidec1782

wing1790

side-slip1808

coulisse1819

prompt corner1872

tormentor1886

P1901

1886 Stage Gossip 70 The ‘tormentor’ is the name for a door, placed in the R.I.E. and L.I.E., and which prevents anybody from obtaining a view of the performance from either of the entrances named, and also prevents the actor being seen by the ‘house’—these doors are annoying at times.

1893 N. York Herald 25 Dec. 26/2 (Funk) The first wing has been known to the stage as ‘tormentor’ wing from time whereof memory of man runneth not to the contrary.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 12 Jan. 9/3 A strip of white bunting is waved by a master of the ceremonies from a wooden hutch in the ‘tormentor’ wing.

(b) A screen employed in sound-recording: see quot.

ΚΠ

1929 Photoplay Apr. Tormentor, a large portable wall draped with special material to prevent echo and resonance on the sound set.

f. A device used to annoy at pleasure-fairs (frequently a device for squirting liquid): cf. tickler n.¹ 2b, scratch-back n. 2. colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > scratching > [noun] > instrument for

back-scratcher1794

scratch-back1842

tormentor1891

society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > fairground or amusement park > [noun] > device used to annoy

tormentor1891

1891 in Cent. Dict.

1894 A. Morrison Tales Mean Streets 34 The ladies' tormentors are larger, and their contents smell worse than at any other fair.

1894 A. Morrison Tales Mean Streets 36 Billy bought a ladies' tormentor and began to squirt it at Lizerunt.

1903 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VII. ii. 169/1 Tormentor..3 (common), a back-scratcher.

1912 J. Masefield Widow in Bye St. 19 One's so safe with such a son to con her Through all the noises and through all the press, Boys daredn't squirt tormenters on her dress.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tormentor
释义	tormentorn. Brit. /tɔːˈmɛntə/, U.S. /tɔrˈmɛn(t)ər/ Forms: Also Middle English–1800s -er. Etymology: Middle English and Anglo-Norman tormentour = Old French tor- , tourmenteur , earlier -teour , -teor (c1150 in Godefroy) < Latin type tormentātōr-em , agent-noun < tormentāre* to torment v. One who or that which torments. 1. An officer who inflicts torture or cruelty; an official torturer; an executioner. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > [noun] > torturer pinerOE wiþerlaȝec1175 tormentorc1290 pincher1368 tortor1570 torturer1597 torture-monger1615 excruciator1864 c1290 St. Edmund 43 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 298 His luþere tormentores þat beoten him so sore. a1350 St. Andrew 171 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 6 Þe turmentours..Toke his bodi with bitter brayde, Vnto þe cros þai gun it bend. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xviii. 34 His lord wroth, tok hym to tourmenturs [a1425 L.V. turmentouris, 1582 Rheims tormenters, 1611 King James tormentors], til that he paiede al the dette. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 185 b/2 The tormentour as he had smyten of his heed both his eyen sterte out of his heed. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 66/2 He that playeth the sowdayne is percase a sowter. Yet if one should..calle him by his owne name..one of his tormentors might hap to breake his [= one's] head. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 25 Such, who..are holden for infamous, as Sergeants, Hangmen, Tormentours. 1895 H. R. Haggard Heart of World xxv That your souls be handed over to the tormentors of the under-world. 2. One who or that which persistently inflicts intense pain, suffering, vexation, or annoyance.In quot. 1642 humorously: = teaser n.¹ 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > [noun] roodOE thornc1230 prickc1384 rack?a1425 travailerc1450 goading1548 twinge1548 goad1553 tormentor1553 cut1568 stingera1577 butcher1579 torture1612 bosom-devil1651 wound1844 knife-edge1876 nemesis1933 1553 T. Becon Relikes of Rome (1563) 199 They dissent both in the tormentours and in the tormentes of the soules. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 137 These words hereafter thy tormentors be. View more context for this quotation 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 19 Certainly this tormenter of semicolons is as good at dismembring and slitting sentences. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 447. ¶10 They will naturally become their own Tormentors. 1751 Affecting Narr. H.M.S. Wager 84 The Prospect of that horridest Tormenter, Famine, [was] continually before our Eyes. 1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 271 A host of tormentors, in the shape of flies,..persecuting the poor animal. 1897 ‘Ouida’ Massarenes viii The person whose instructress and tormentor she was. 3. An instrument that torments in some way. †a. Some device for catching fleas. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > pest control > [noun] > device for catching or killing fleas tormentor1609 flea-powder1699 flea collar1953 1609 T. Heywood Cries of Rome in Rape Lucrece in Wks. (1874) V. 254 Buy a very fine Mouse-trap, or a tormentor for your Fleaes. 1622 J. Taylor Trav. Twelve-pence (1635) B vij b Of Mowse Traps, and tormentors to kill Fleas. a1625 J. Fletcher Bonduca ii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Gggg3^v/2 Daughter. Are they not our tormentors? Car. Tormentors? Flea-traps. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. iv. 22 in Wks. II Buy a Mouse-trap, a Mouse-trap, or a Tormentor for a Flea. b. plural. A long-handled fork used for taking the meat from the coppers on board ship; also, Scottish ‘an implement on which to toast bannocks, etc.’ ( Eng. Dial. Dict.); in quot. 1866 (singular), a piercing implement carried by excise officers. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > fork prong1626 carving-fork1678 flesh-fork1679 tormentor1707 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 84 He [sc. a sea-cook] is never without a Pair of Tormentors in his Hand. 1823 J. Galt Ringan Gilhaize I. ii. 22 Toasting an oaten bannock on a pair of tormentors. 1866 W. J. Fitzpatrick Sham Squire 18 Sham made a violent pass at Peck with his tormentor. 1898 F. T. Bullen Cruise ‘Cachalot’ xv. 186 The cook uncovered his coppers, plunged his tormentors therein, and produced such a succession of ugly corpses of fowls as I had never seen before. c. A wheel-harrow of which each tine is a small share or hoe, for breaking up stiff soil. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harrowing equipment > [noun] > harrow > types of harrow drag1388 ox-harrow1465 drag-harrow1744 bush-harrow1770 twitch harrow1771 brake1786 crab-harrow1796 twitch drag1799 tormentor1808 flag-harrow1845 chain-harrow1870 pitch-pole1929 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon v. 121 Scarifiers, scufflers, shims, and broad shares of various constructions,..called under the general name of tormentors. 1882 F. W. P. Jago Anc. Lang. & Dial. Cornwall Tormentor, an agricultural implement for breaking up the clods of a ploughed field. d. plural. A slang name for riding-spurs. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > art of horse-riding > use of hands and legs > using spurs > spur spurc725 Ripon1631 heel spur1687 prick spur1688 Brummagem1823 goad spur1838 boot-spur1847 tormentor1875 1875 G. J. Whyte-Melville Riding Recoll. (1879) iv. 59 Fordham..wholly repudiates ‘the tormentors’, arguing that they only make a horse shorten his stride, and ‘shut up’. e. (a) Theatre. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > sides side-scene1675 side wing1698 slips1771 prompt sidec1782 wing1790 side-slip1808 coulisse1819 prompt corner1872 tormentor1886 P1901 1886 Stage Gossip 70 The ‘tormentor’ is the name for a door, placed in the R.I.E. and L.I.E., and which prevents anybody from obtaining a view of the performance from either of the entrances named, and also prevents the actor being seen by the ‘house’—these doors are annoying at times. 1893 N. York Herald 25 Dec. 26/2 (Funk) The first wing has been known to the stage as ‘tormentor’ wing from time whereof memory of man runneth not to the contrary. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 12 Jan. 9/3 A strip of white bunting is waved by a master of the ceremonies from a wooden hutch in the ‘tormentor’ wing. (b) A screen employed in sound-recording: see quot. ΚΠ 1929 Photoplay Apr. Tormentor, a large portable wall draped with special material to prevent echo and resonance on the sound set. f. A device used to annoy at pleasure-fairs (frequently a device for squirting liquid): cf. tickler n.¹ 2b, scratch-back n. 2. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > scratching > [noun] > instrument for back-scratcher1794 scratch-back1842 tormentor1891 society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > fairground or amusement park > [noun] > device used to annoy tormentor1891 1891 in Cent. Dict. 1894 A. Morrison Tales Mean Streets 34 The ladies' tormentors are larger, and their contents smell worse than at any other fair. 1894 A. Morrison Tales Mean Streets 36 Billy bought a ladies' tormentor and began to squirt it at Lizerunt. 1903 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VII. ii. 169/1 Tormentor..3 (common), a back-scratcher. 1912 J. Masefield Widow in Bye St. 19 One's so safe with such a son to con her Through all the noises and through all the press, Boys daredn't squirt tormenters on her dress. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1290
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