G931Greektorment
torment
a touch-stone, i.e., (by analogy) torture
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Detailed Definition
- 1a touchstone, which is a black siliceous stone used to test the purity of gold or silver by the color of the streak produced on it by rubbing it with either metal
- 2of the pains of a disease
- 3of those in hell after death
- 4the rack or instrument of torture by which one is forced to divulge the truth
- 5torture, torment, acute pains
Etymology & Derivation
perhaps remotely from the same as g0939 (through the notion of going to the bottom)