Meanings
adjectiveexcruciable (comparative more excruciable, superlative most excruciable)
comparative more excruciable · superlative most excruciable
- archaicLiable to torment.
With the same heroic devotion with which they went forth to fight the battles of their country, firmly clinging to the dear old flag, they died the most excruciable deaths possible for rebel tyrants to inflict.
1872, Amos Stevens Billingsley, From the Flag to the Cross: Or, Scenes and Incidents of Christianity in the War
Origin
- Latinexcruciabilis“deserving of torture”
- Englishexcruciable
Latin excruciabilis (“deserving of torture”).
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