Meaning of tormento | Babel Free

Definitions

1. torment
   masculine
2. torture
   masculine
3. Equivalent to 'Torment': A catapult or other kind of war-engine.

Equivalents

Examples

“Ano sobre dito de LV, a XXVI días de jullyo, o dito Pero Ardido declarou, en lle dando tormento, que tomara et roubara a un judio de Bayona, ena Portella de Santo Antón os ditos dose botóos et outros tantos que leua Esteuo Pallazín, seu parçeiro, et que lle tomara mays o roçín et que lle tomara mays as ditas cinquo bulsas et tres esqueiros et a dita çinta de prata et mays os diñeiros et os coroados vellos et huas botas et todo o al que lle acharon en seu poder, o baladrán et sayas, et hun correo con os ditos diñeiros, et que o leixaran atado en hun monte et que o dito Esteuo Pallazín que o quisera matar se él non fora, et que o dito Esteuo Pallasín que leuara outro tanto.”

Year, the aforementioned 1455, 26 days of July. Pedro Ardido declared, when they were giving torment to him, the he took and robbed a Jew from Baiona, at the pass of St. Anton, twelve buttons and many others which took Estevo Pallacín, his partner; and also he took his horse, and also five bags, and three tinderboxes and a silver ribbon and coins and old crowns and some boots, and all that they found in him, the garment and robes, and a money bag with the aforementioned coins; and that they left him tied in a hill, and that the aforementioned Estevo Pallacín wanted to kill the Jew, if it was not for him; and that the aforementioned Estevo Pallacín took as much.

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