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Definition of Inflicted
1. inflict [v] - See also: inflict
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inflicted
Literary usage of Inflicted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"A censure may also be inflicted conditionally; if the condition is fulfilled the
... Can censures be inflicted as vindictive penalties, ie not primarily as ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"The plaintiff says that the defendant inflicted upon him "a gross tort" in
discharging him from employment for a supposed crime which he did not commit. ..."
3. The History of Russia: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Kelly, Walter Keating (1855)
"Every species of punishment was inflicted; and neither property nor the ties of
family were respected. So they are to go alone, separated from all belonging ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"293) finds that such injuries, usually involving the right eye, and either
self-inflicted or betraying the unskilled handiwork of the quack, ..."
5. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead (1905)
"Punishments inflicted by the Siar Chamber. Case of Bishop Williams and Dr. ...
Of the barbarous and tyrannical punishments inflicted by the Court of Star ..."
6. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck (1906)
"3 Among the Australian aborigines, then, we find cases in which punishment is
inflicted by the whole community, and other cases in which it is inflicted by ..."
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