forcipation
English
Noun
forcipation (uncountable)
- torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers
- 1592, Francis Bacon, Observations on a Libel
- And à punishment surely it is , though of great terror , yet by reason of the quick dispatching , of less torment far than either the wheel or forcipation , yea than simple burning
- 1592, Francis Bacon, Observations on a Libel
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for forcipation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)