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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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It is not only important, but, in a degree necessary, that the people of this country, should have an American Dictionary of the English language; for, although the body of the language is the same as in England, and it is desirable to perpetuate that sameness, yet some differences must exist. Language is the expression of ideas; and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas, they cannot retain an identity of language. |
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1828 Definition
TORT'URE, n. [L. tortus, torqueo, to twist.]
TORT'URE, v.t. To pain to extremity; to torment.
1913 Definition
Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony;
torment; as, torture of mind.
Shak.
Ghastly spasm or racking torture. Milton. Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially,
either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a
confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or
thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.
The act or process of torturing.
Torture, whitch had always been deciared illegal, and which had recently been declared illegal even by the servile judges of that age, was inflicted for the last time in England in the month of May, 1640. Macaulay. To
put to torture] to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as,
to torture an accused person.
Shak. To wrest from the proper meaning; to
distort.
Jar. Taylor. To keep on the stretch, as a bow.
[Obs.]
The bow tortureth the string. Bacon. | ||||||||
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The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His apostles, which enjoins humility, piety, and benevolence; which acknowledges in every person a brother, or a sister, and a citizen with equal rights. This is genuine Christianity, and to this we owe our free Constitutions of Government.
History of the United States :: 1832
