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单词 torturer
释义 ˈtorturer
Also 6–7 -or.
[f. torture v. + -er1.]
One who or that which inflicts or causes torture; a tormentor; spec. one who executes judicial torture.
1593Shakes. Rich. II, iii. ii. 198, I play the Torturer, by small and small To lengthen out the worst, that must be spoken.1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 52 b/2 Two torturors will deprive a man of life..the torturer of greefe and sorrowe is the most cruellest.1611Shakes. Cymb. v. v. 215 Thou King, send out For Torturors ingenious.1780Beckford Italy (1834) I. 69 That respectable corps, the torturers of butterflies.1805Southey Madoc in Azt. ii. 114 Thou know'st how manfully These tribes..in bonds Defy their torturers.1830Scott Ayrshire Trag. iii. i, A torturer of phrases into sonnets.
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