单词 | tortou |
释义 | ▪ I. † ˈtortor Obs. Also 6–7 -our(e. [L., agent-n. from torquēre, tort-um to twist, torture.] A torturer, tormentor; an executioner.
1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 125/2 The boucherlye tortoure pluckte the skynne from the crowne of hys head. 1606tr. Rollock's Lect. on 1 Thess. 305 The conscience..as a tortor within thee to torment thee. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 410 The Tortor proudly did the feat, but cleere he went not quit; That holy Martyr lost his head, this cruell wretch his sight. 1619Purchas Microcosmus xlii. 401 Tortures and Tortours, Deuills and Deuillish Plagues. ▪ II. tortor, tortou obs. ff. torture, tortoise. |

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