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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1610-1638
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(Tortouring,) Tortering, Torturing, vbl. n. [17th c. Eng. torturing (1622).] The act of inflicting suffering or torture. — 1610 Criminal Trials III 103.
By … robeing and reiveing of thame of thair schipes and gudis, drowning, slaying and tortering of thair persones maist vnmercifullie 1620 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. II 243.
[For] taking torturing & kerking in lint cords David Beans his seruitour 1638 Drummond Wks. (1711) 170.
Ruines of noble houses … confiscation of estates, torturing of bodies
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