torrere

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"Si vero _hæresiarchæ Berquini_, et suorum sequacium pervicacia delibutus (hæreticus) incorrigibilis videatur, ne fortassis plusquam vipereum venenum latenter surrepat, et sanos inficere possit, subito auferte eum de medio vestrum, execrantes atque aversantes illius perversitatem, et abscisum velut palmitem aridum (juxta Joannis sententiam) _subjectis ignibus torrere facite_."

The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird
The past tense of Latin torrere "to parch" was tostus, which became a new verb, tostare "to toast".

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
si torrere iecur quaeris idoneum; namque et nobilis et decens

Rursus bella moues? Horace 1912