excruciable

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English

Etymology

Latin excruciabilis (deserving of torture).

Adjective

excruciable (comparative more excruciable, superlative most excruciable)

  1. (archaic) Liable to torment.
    • 1872, Amos Stevens Billingsley, From the Flag to the Cross: Or, Scenes and Incidents of Christianity in the War:
      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.