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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Inflict \In*flict"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inflicted}; p. pr &
vb n. {Inflicting}.] [L. inflictus p. p. of infligere to
strike on to inflict; pref. in- in on + fligere to strike.
Cf {Flail}.]
To give cause or produce by striking, or as if by striking;
to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send to cause to
bear, feel or suffer; as to inflict blows; to inflict a
wound with a dagger; to inflict severe pain by ingratitude;
to inflict punishment on an offender; to inflict the penalty
of death on a criminal.
What heart could wish, what hand inflict, this dire
disgrace? --Drygen.
The persecution and the pain That man inflicts on
infero-ior kinds. --Cowper.
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