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ˈtormentry
[a. OF. tourmenterie (1427 in Godef.), office of a tormentor or executioner, f. tormenteur tormentor: see -ry.]
†1. A company or body of tormentors or executioners. Obs. [Cf. Jewry, yeomanry.]
a1350St. Andrew 108 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 5 Egeas þan..Sent efter al his turmentry, And bad þam..ordan a cros. Ibid. 208 Both he and al his turmentri.
†2. The infliction or suffering of torture or torment, as by executioners or fiends. Obs.
1375XI Pains of Hell 159 in O.E. Misc. 215 A sorouful syȝt, a hore hold mon, Be-twene iiij fyndis in turmentre. c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 2825 He snybbed is, and put to tormentrie. 1534More Comf. agst. Trib. iii. xvii. (1847) 253 All the tormentry that the devil..could devise.
3. Tormenting feeling; severe suffering, pain, or vexation. Now rare.
c1386Chaucer Wife's Prol. 251 Thanne seistow it is a tormentrie To soffren hire pride and hire malencolie. 1434Misyn Mending of Life i. 106 Ioy or turmentry we sal resayfe. 1509Fisher Serm. Funeral Hen. VII, Wks. (1876) 279, I founde in them all but vanyte & turmentry of soule. 1885R. F. Burton Arab. Nts. III. 19 O joy of Hell and Heaven! whose tormentry enquickens frame and soul. |