ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.] Subjected or put to torture (lit. and fig.); tormented; wrested, etc.: see the verb.

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1603.  Drayton, Bar. Wars, IV. xxxix. Eu’ry cadence as a torturde cry.

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1687.  Dryden, Hind & P., II. 119. The tortur’d Text.

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1743.  Francis, trans. Hor., Odes, II. xiii. 44. Charm’d by the melodious Strain The tortur’d Ghosts forget their Pain.

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1814.  Scott, Ld. of Isles, IV. xi. Scarba’s isle, whose tortured shore Still rings to Corrievreken’s roar.

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1838.  Lytton, Leila, I.vi. Thy father filled his treasuries from the gold of many a tortured Hebrew.

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