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Contortuplicate
Contortuplicate Con`tor*tu"pli*cate, a. [L. contortuplicatus;
contortus contorted + plicare to fold.] (Bot.)
Plaited lengthwise and twisted in addition, as the bud of the
morning-glory. --Gray.
Pretorture
Pretorture Pre*tor"ture (?; 135), v. t.
To torture beforehand. --Fuller.
Tortulous
Tortulous Tor"tu*lous, a. (Nat. Hist.)
Swelled out at intervals like a knotted cord.
Tortuose
Tortuose Tor"tu*ose`, a. [See Tortuous.]
Wreathed; twisted; winding. --Loudon
Tortuoslty
Tortuoslty Tor`tu*os"l*ty, n. [L. tortuositas: cf. F.
tortuosite.]
the quality or state of being tortuous.
TortuousTortuous Tor"tu*ous, a. [OE. tortuos, L. tortuosus, fr. tortus
a twisting, winding, fr. torquere, tortum, to twist: cf. F.
tortueux. See Torture.]
1. Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding;
as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or
corolla.
The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the
side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick.
--Macaulay.
2. Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous;
deceitful.
That course became somewhat lesstortuous, when the
battle of the Boyne had cowed the spirit of the
Jakobites. --Macaulay.
3. Injurious: tortious. [Obs.]
4. (Astrol.) Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the
zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most
rapidly and obliquely. [Obs.] --Skeat.
Infortunate ascendent tortuous. --Chaucer.
--Tor"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Tor"tu*ous*ness, n. TortuouslyTortuous Tor"tu*ous, a. [OE. tortuos, L. tortuosus, fr. tortus
a twisting, winding, fr. torquere, tortum, to twist: cf. F.
tortueux. See Torture.]
1. Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding;
as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or
corolla.
The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the
side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick.
--Macaulay.
2. Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous;
deceitful.
That course became somewhat lesstortuous, when the
battle of the Boyne had cowed the spirit of the
Jakobites. --Macaulay.
3. Injurious: tortious. [Obs.]
4. (Astrol.) Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the
zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most
rapidly and obliquely. [Obs.] --Skeat.
Infortunate ascendent tortuous. --Chaucer.
--Tor"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Tor"tu*ous*ness, n. TortuousnessTortuous Tor"tu*ous, a. [OE. tortuos, L. tortuosus, fr. tortus
a twisting, winding, fr. torquere, tortum, to twist: cf. F.
tortueux. See Torture.]
1. Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding;
as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or
corolla.
The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the
side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick.
--Macaulay.
2. Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous;
deceitful.
That course became somewhat lesstortuous, when the
battle of the Boyne had cowed the spirit of the
Jakobites. --Macaulay.
3. Injurious: tortious. [Obs.]
4. (Astrol.) Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the
zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most
rapidly and obliquely. [Obs.] --Skeat.
Infortunate ascendent tortuous. --Chaucer.
--Tor"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Tor"tu*ous*ness, n. Torturable
Torturable Tor"tur*a*ble, a.
Capable of being tortured.
TortureTorture Tor"ture, n. [F.,fr.L. tortura, fr. torquere, tortum,
to twist, rack, torture; probably akin to Gr. tre`pein to
turn, G. drechsein to turn on a lathe, and perhaps to E.
queer. Cf. Contort, Distort, Extort, Retort, Tart,
n., Torch, Torment, Tortion, Tort, Trope.]
1. Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony;
torment; as, torture of mind. --Shak.
Ghastly spasm or racking torture. --Milton.
2. Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as
punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a
confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by
the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.
3. The act or process of torturing.
Torture, whitch had always been deciared illegal,
and which had recently been declared illegal even by
the servile judges of that age, was inflicted for
the last time in England in the month of May, 1640.
--Macaulay. TortureTorture Tor"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tortured (?; 135); p.
pr. & vb. n. Torturing.] [Cf. F. Torturer. ]
1. To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
2. To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture
an accused person. --Shak.
3. To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort. --Jar.
Taylor.
4. To keep on the stretch, as a bow. [Obs.]
The bow tortureth the string. --Bacon. TorturedTorture Tor"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tortured (?; 135); p.
pr. & vb. n. Torturing.] [Cf. F. Torturer. ]
1. To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
2. To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture
an accused person. --Shak.
3. To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort. --Jar.
Taylor.
4. To keep on the stretch, as a bow. [Obs.]
The bow tortureth the string. --Bacon. Torturer
Torturer Tor"tur*er, n.
One who tortures; a tormentor.
TorturingTorture Tor"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tortured (?; 135); p.
pr. & vb. n. Torturing.] [Cf. F. Torturer. ]
1. To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
2. To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture
an accused person. --Shak.
3. To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort. --Jar.
Taylor.
4. To keep on the stretch, as a bow. [Obs.]
The bow tortureth the string. --Bacon. Torturingly
Torturingly Tor"tur*ing*ly, adv.
So as to torture. --Beau. & Fl.
Torturous
Torturous Tor"tur*ous, a.
Involving, or pertaining to, torture. [R.] ``The torturous
crucifixion.' --I. Disraeli.
Meaning of Tortu from wikipedia
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Tortu is a 1921
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directed by
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becoming the 150th
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Elizabeth Simbiwa Sogbo-
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Sierra Leonean woman who was
barred from her bid to
become Paramount Chief of
Nimiyama Chiefdom in
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- due to a
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American actress June 15
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