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Webster 1913 Edition

Excruciate

Ex-cru′ci-ate

,
Adj.
[L.
excruciatus
, p. p. of
excruciare
to excruciate;
ex
out +
cruciare
to put to death on a cross, to torment. See
Cruciate
,
Cross
.]
Excruciated; tortured.
And here my heart long time
excruciate
.
Chapman.

Ex-cru′ci-ate

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Excruciated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Excruciating
.]
To inflict agonizing pain upon; to torture; to torment greatly; to rack;
as, to
excruciate
the heart or the body
.
Their thoughts, like devils, them
excruciate
.
Drayton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Excruciate

EXCRU'CIATE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. excrucio; ex and crucio, to torment, from crux, a cross.] To torture; to torment; to inflict most severe pain on; as, to excruciate the heart or the body.

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