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▪ I. † inflict, ppl. a. Obs. rare.
[ad. L. inflict-us, pa. pple. of inflīgĕre: see next.]
Inflicted.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 182 b, Thou art..free from all malediccyon and opprobry, inflycte to woman for synne.
▪ II. inflict, v.|ɪnˈflɪkt|
[f. L. inflict-, ppl. stem of inflīgĕre to dash or strike (one thing on or against another), to inflict (punishment).]
1. trans. To lay on as a stroke, blow, or wound; to impose as something that must be suffered or endured; to cause to be borne.
1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iii. i. 377 No paine they can inflict vpon him Will make him say, I mou'd him to those Armes. ― Lucr. 1630 Lasting shame On thee and thine this night I will inflict. 1596Spenser F.Q. vi. viii. 22 For revengement of those wrongfull smarts, Which I to others did inflict afore. 1611Bible 2 Cor. ii. 6 This punishment, which was inflicted of many. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxvii. 153 A penalty..hath been usually inflicted in the like cases. 1711Light for Blind in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 195 Tho' Cromwell had been dead, yett justice was inflicted on his corps. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VII. 210 [The rattle-snake] inflicts its wound in a moment; then parts, and inflicts a second wound. 1863F. A. Kemble Resid. in Georgia 42 Each driver is allowed to inflict a dozen lashes. 1873L. Ferguson Disc. 197 The suffering was not wantonly inflicted.
b. To impose something unwelcome. (Often jocular.)
1809Byron Bards & Rev. Argt., Wks. (1846) 422 note, Master Southey hath inflicted three poems..on the public. 1833L. Ritchie Wand. by Loire 129 In Prussia, where the order of the great Frederick suffices equally well to inflict a spouse and the bastinado! 1875Jowett Plato I. 51 Your father is pleased to inflict many lords and masters on you.
2. With inverted construction: To afflict, assail, trouble (a person) with something painful or disagreeable. (Now rare, and only in sense 1 b.)
1566Painter Pal. Pleas. (1890) II. 30 The wycked villaine inflicted her bodye with manifold wounds. 1608Shakes. Per. v. i. 61 The most just gods For every graff would send a caterpillar, And so inflict [mod. edd. afflict] our province. 1652Cokaine tr. Calprenede's Cassandra I. 36 Oroondates..began to be deeply inflicted with it. 1883Macm. Mag. XLVIII. 130 We should be inflicted with less..twaddle and useless verbosity.
Hence inˈflicted ppl. a.; inˈflicting vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1598Florio, Inflitto, stroken violently, inflicted, smitten against. 1611Ibid., Inflittione, an infliction or inflicting. 1631Gouge God's Arrows i. §1 The inflicting cause [of the plague] was the Lord. 1652S. S. Secretaries Stud. 202, I hope time wil..weaken these inflictings. 1848Buckley Homer's Iliad 267 His soul fled in haste through the inflicted wound. |