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Affliction; dreariness. [Obs.] Spenser.

Impatience under affliction; morbid restlessness; dissatisfaction; the fidgets.

bear with patience; to suffer without opposition or without sinking under the pressure or affliction; to bear up under; to put up with; to tolerate. I will no longer endure it. Shak. Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake. 2 Tim. ii. 10. How can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people Esther…

e. "The bliss that fills up all the mind." Pope. "And fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ." Col. i. 24.

Torture by burning; severe trial or affliction.

Grieving; grief; affliction. The . . . grievance of a mind unreasonably yoked. Milton.

Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction; as, a grievous cry. -- Griev"ous*ly, adv. -- Griev"ous*ness, n.

-- Under the harrow, subjected to actual torture with a toothed instrument, or to great affliction or oppression.

Easy to be endured or performed; not severe; not difficult; as, a light affliction or task. Chaucer. Light sufferings give us leisure to complain. Dryden.

Affliction; torment; torture. Chaucer.

A state of affliction; adversity; as, a dreary night of sorrow.

all diseases; a universal medicine; a cure-all; catholicon; hence, a relief or solace for affliction.

Affliction; distress; grievance. My people's pressures are grievous. Eikon Basilike. In the midst of his great troubles and pressures. Atterbury.

smiss; to forswear. This world I do renounce, and in your sights Shake patiently my great affliction off. Shak.

effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit. A new affliction strings a new cord in the heart, which responds to some new note of complaint within the wide scale of human woe. Buckminster. To every theme responds thy various lay. Broome.

"To restore and to build Jerusalem." Dan. ix. 25. Our fortune restored after the severest afflictions. Prior. And his hand was restored whole as the other. Mark iii. 5.

Affected with grief or unhappiness; cast down with affliction; downcast; gloomy; mournful. First were we sad, fearing you would not come; Now sadder, that you come so unprovided. Shak. The angelic guards ascended, mute and sad. Milton.

Hence, a means of inflicting punishment, vengeance, or suffering; an infliction of affliction; a punishment. Sharp scourges of adversity. Chaucer. What scourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence Shak.

n; opportune; timely; as, a seasonable supply of rain. Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction. Ecclus. xxxv. 20. -- Sea"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Sea"son*a*bly, adv.

Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction. To stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart. Milton. Counsel mitigates the greatest smart. Spenser.