Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
torqued .
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Examples
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Cogitatio Venereorum me torquet perpetuo, et quam facto implere non licuit, aut fecisse potentem puduit, cogitatione assidua mentitus sum voluptatem.
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On this west shore we found a dead fish floating, which had in his nose a horn, straight and torquet, of length two yards lacking two inches, being broken in the top, where we might perceive it hollow, into which some of our sailors putting spiders they presently died.
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* Heu miserum, nimisque miserum quem torquet conscientia sua, quam fugere non potest; nimis miserum quem expectat damnatio sua quam vitare non potest, nisi Deus eripiat.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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Maeror aut captos fatigat aut spes lubrica torquet
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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On this west shore we found a dead fish floating, which had in his nose a horn, straight and torquet, of length two yards lacking two inches, being broken in the top, where we might perceive it hollow, into which some of our sailors putting spiders they presently died.
Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage Richard Hakluyt 1584
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On this West shore we found a dead fish floating, which had in his nose a horne streight and torquet, [54] of length two yards lacking two ynches, being broken in the top, where we might perceiue it hollow, into the which some of our sailers putting spiders they presently died.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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'X veterum haud raro in gratiam fentend rum temerarianim torquet.
Bibliotheca historica. A.I.G. Meuselio ita digesta ut pæne novum opus videri possit 1794
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.575, Caeliger, atque humero magnum fuper aetfaera torquet Fama vetus ieptcm memorat genitore creatas Long -
Arati Solensis Phaenomena et Diosemea graece et latine ad codd. mss. et optimarvm edd. fidem recensita Buhle, Johann Gottlieb, 1763-1821, ed 1793
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Britan. ad Artic. quartum, thes. 1, 2, p. [87] "Heu miserum, nimisque miserum quem torquet conscientia sua, quam fugere non potest; nimis miserum quem expectat damnatio sua quam vitare non potest, nisi Deus eripiat.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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33 Donis: inilitariaiona % ctrtnae t torquet & phalcrac, Torrcntius.
Q. Horatii Flacci eclogae: cum scholiis veteribus Horace, William Baxter, Johann Matthias Gesner, Johann Carl Zeune 1788
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