Definition of Tormentum

1. a missile hurler [n TORMENTUMS or TORMENTA]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tormentum

tormentil
tormentils
tormenting
tormentingly
tormentise
tormentor
tormentors
tormentour
tormentours
tormentress
tormentresses
tormentries
tormentrix
tormentry
torments
tormentum (current term)
tormina
torminal
torminous
torn
torn away
tornade
tornades
tornadic
tornado
tornado cellar
tornado epilepsy
tornado lantern
tornadocane
tornadocanes

Literary usage of Tormentum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ninety-three by Victor Hugo (1888)
"tormentum BELLI. ONE of the carronades of the battery, a twenty- four pound cannon, had become loose. This is perhaps the most dreadful thing that can take ..."

2. The Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul: With Dissertations on the Life and by James Smith (1856)
"The tormentum is a cable in long ships, which is extended from stem to stern, in order to bind them together." f Isidore mentions two kinds of cables for ..."

3. Quarter Sessions Records by John Christopher Atkinson (1884)
"... for carrying &c., Curia sedente, quoddam tormentum t Anglice vocatum a ... in domo sua aut in alio loco aliquod tormentum aliter quam tale quod fuerit ..."

4. Quarter Session Records by John Christopher Atkinson (1884)
"... for carrying &c., Curia sedente, quoddam tormentum t Anglice vocatum a ... in domo sua aut in alio loco aliquod tormentum aliter quam tale quod fuerit ..."

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