Definition of Inflicters

1. inflicter [n] - See also: inflicter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inflicters

inflexible
inflexibleness
inflexibly
inflexing
inflexion
inflexional
inflexionally
inflexions
inflexive
inflexure
inflict
inflicted
inflicted insight
inflicted insights
inflicter
inflicters (current term)
inflictest
inflicteth
inflicting
infliction
inflictions
inflictive
inflictor
inflictors
inflicts
inflight
infliximab
inflorescence
inflorescences
inflorescent

Literary usage of Inflicters

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Epistles to the Thessalonians by George Gillanders Findlay (1898)
"It indicates the reversal that will take place in the other world between the position of the sufferers and inflicters of wrong; comp. our Lord's picture of ..."

2. Detraction Displayed by Amelia Alderson Opie (1828)
"To these detractors by looks, I give the name of EYE-inflicters. 1 have often heard Dr. Parr say, " / inflicted my eye on such a one! ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"... and shooting down—methods which corrupted the inflicters of punishment by diminishing their own sense of responsibility—may give an advantage to the ..."

4. Contributions to the Bacteriology of the Oyster by Woods Hutchinson, Hollis Godfrey, Rhode Island (State) Commissioners of shell-fisheries, Lester Angell Round (1914)
"... a sort of professional inflicters of punishment and family magistrates, and the threat, " I '11 tell your father on you!" was one the significance of ..."

5. Thirty Years' View: Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1858)
"... and making them co-operators in the attack, and the instruments and inflicters of the fatal and final blow. But let us do justice to these ministers. ..."

6. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1868)
"... though they mistake their rule & warrant that are the inflicters of it. My Br. Sams picture is not to bee had. ..."

7. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1858)
"... the talented, and the truly brave, that lent themselves to be the personal inflicters and coldly systematic perpetrators of these wrongs. ..."

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