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▪ I. † exˈcruciate, ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. L. excruciātus, pa. pple. of excruciāre: see next.]
a. = excruciated ppl. a.
¶b. = excruciating ppl. a.
a1615Beaumont & Fletcher (W.), Would she sit thus then excruciate? 1615Chapman Odyss. vii. 398 My heart, long time excruciate, Amongst the leaves I rested all that night. 1773J. Ross Fratricide (MS.) ii. 620 Excruciate pains Seiz'd on our Father's frame.
▪ II. excruciate, v.|ɛkˈskruːʃɪˌeɪt|
Also 7 excruciat, -tiat(e.
[f. L. excruciāt- ppl. stem of excruciāre, f. ex- intensive (see ex- prefix1 2) + cruciāre to torment, f. cruc-em cross.]
1.
†a. lit. To subject to torture, put on the rack, etc.; fig. to ‘rack’ (one's brains) (obs.).
b. transf. To cause intense pain to, torment acutely (a person's senses). Often hyperbolical.
1570Levins Manip. 41 To Excruciate, excruciare. 1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 154 They..by pining and excruciating their bodies, liue in hell here on earth, to auoid the hell neuer ending. 1593― Four Lett. Confut. 56 You shall not excruciate your braine to be conceited and haue no wit. 1623Cockeram 111, Perillus..invented a brazen Bull..made redhot to torment and excruciate malefactors. 1717Bullock Wom. a Riddle i. i. May convulsions seize and excruciate my optick nerves. 1830Miss Mitford Village Ser. iv. (1863) 256 The bassoon, on which George Evans was wont..to excruciate the ears of the whole congregation.
2. fig. To torture mentally, inflict extreme mental anguish upon.
1586Marlowe 1st Pt. Tamburl. i. i, This..doth excruciate The very substance of my vexed soul. 1611Markham Countr. Content. i. xi. (1668) 61 He must..neither vex nor excruciate himself with losses or mischances. 1655–60Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 617/2 He neither blunts his mind, nor excrutiats it with cares. 1758Johnson Idler No. 47 ⁋17 If a customer talks longer than he is willing to hear, he will complain that he has been excruciated with unmeaning verbosity. 1879Froude Cæsar xxvi. 445 He described himself as excruciated with anxiety.
absol.1651Charleton Ephes. & Cimm. Matrons ii. (1668) 44 Their joys are infested with such calamities, that they excruciate.
Hence exˈcruciated ppl. a., tormented, tortured.
1792Minstrel (1793) I. 80 Oh my excruciated heart! |