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Question :: Question (n.) Examination with reference to a decisive result; investigation; specifically, a judicial or official investigation; also, examination under torture..

Forcipation :: Forcipation (n.) Torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers.

Torture :: Torture (v. t.) To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort.

Agonize :: Agonize (v. t.) To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture.

Tormentor :: Tormentor (n.) One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures..

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) An ancient instrument of torture.

Lacerate :: Lacerate (v. t.) To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart..

Pine :: Pine (v.) To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.

Discruciate :: Discruciate (v. t.) To torture; to excruciate.

Thumbscrew :: Thumbscrew (n.) An old instrument of torture for compressing the thumb by a screw; a thumbkin.

Booting :: Booting (n.) A kind of torture. See Boot, n., 2..

Torture :: Torture (v. t.) To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.

Plitt :: Plitt (n.) An instrument of punishment or torture resembling the knout, used in Russia..

Rack :: Rack (a.) An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons..

Torturingly :: Torturingly (adv.) So as to torture.

Martyr :: Martyr (v. t.) To persecute; to torment; to torture.

Torturous :: Torturous (a.) Involving, or pertaining to, torture..

Rack :: Rack (v. t.) To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.

Martyrdom :: Martyrdom (n.) Affliction; torment; torture.

Starched :: Star-chamber (n.) An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed on mere rumor or examine witnesses; it could apply torture. It was abolished by the Long Parliament in 1641..

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