EXCRUCIATE

a. v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Excruciated; tortured. And here my heart long time excruciate. Chapman.

2.
v.

To inflict agonizing pain upon; to torture; to torment greatly; to rack; as, to excruciate the heart or the body. Their thoughts, like devils, them excruciate. Drayton.