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Definition of Excruciated
1. excruciate [v] - See also: excruciate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excruciated
Literary usage of Excruciated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Study: And Other Essays by Austin Phelps (1886)
"The mother in her nursery was wiser than the wise man of whom the world stood in
awe. Let God be as real to a man as an excruciated eyeball, ..."
2. Pagan Origin of Partialist Doctrines by John Claudius Pitrat (1871)
"... and the deepest cavern, where great criminals were burnt and excruciated
endlessly, and without any hope of cessation or relief in their torments; ..."
3. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1920)
"'Upon my soul and body, this here stooping do fairly make my back open and shut!'
he exclaimed, straightening himself slowly with an excruciated look till ..."
4. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1921)
"But new cares again disturbed. and new agonies again excruciated, these miserable
souls : I have not devoted sufficient time; I have not applied with proper ..."
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