- Extremely painful
- Painful
- Pondering painfully
- Suffering (over)
- Very painful
- Agonising
- Very painful
- Involving, or pertaining to, torture.
- Deadly for a human
- fateful
- Human
- Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.
- Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death;
terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal
wound; a mortal sin.
- Fatally vulnerable; vital.
- Of or pertaining to the time of death.
- Acute
- Biting
- High-pitched
- Keen
- Keenly perceptive
- Musical note
- Tart
- Garnet
- Large boil
- A beautiful gem of a deep red color (with a mixture of
scarlet) called by the Greeks anthrax; found in the East Indies. When
held up to the sun, it loses its deep tinge, and becomes of the color
of burning coal. The name belongs for the most part to ruby sapphire,
though it has been also given to red spinel and garnet.
- A very painful acute local inflammation of the
subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the trunk or back of the neck,
characterized by brawny hardness of the affected parts, sloughing of
the skin and deeper tissues, and marked constitutional depression. It
differs from a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a
central core, and is frequently fatal. It is also called anthrax.
- A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious
stone. It has eight scepters or staves radiating from a common center.
Called also escarbuncle.
- The preposition to primarily indicates approach and arrival,
motion made in the direction of a place or thing and attaining it,
access; and also, motion or tendency without arrival; movement toward;
-- opposed to from.
- Hence, it indicates motion, course, or tendency toward a
time, a state or condition, an aim, or anything capable of being
regarded as a limit to a tendency, movement, or action; as, he is going
to a trade; he is rising to wealth and honor.
- In a very general way, and with innumerable varieties of
application, to connects transitive verbs with their remoter or
indirect object, and adjectives, nouns, and neuter or passive verbs
with a following noun which limits their action. Its sphere verges upon
that of for, but it contains less the idea of design or appropriation;
as, these remarks were addressed to a large audience; let us keep this
seat to ourselves; a substance sweet to the taste; an event painful to
the mind; duty to God and to our parents; a dislike to spirituous
liquor.
- As sign of the infinitive, to had originally the use of last
defined, governing the infinitive as a verbal noun, and connecting it
as indirect object with a preceding verb or adjective; thus, ready to
go, i.e., ready unto going; good to eat, i.e., good for eating; I do my
utmost to lead my life pleasantly. But it has come to be the almost
constant prefix to the infinitive, even in situations where it has no
prepositional meaning, as where the infinitive is direct object or
subject; thus, I love to learn, i.e., I love learning; to die for one's
country is noble, i.e., the dying for one's country. Where the
infinitive denotes the design or purpose, good usage formerly allowed
the prefixing of for to the to; as, what went ye out for see? (Matt.
xi. 8).
- In many phrases, and in connection with many other words, to
has a pregnant meaning, or is used elliptically.
- Extent; limit; degree of comprehension; inclusion as far as;
as, they met us to the number of three hundred.
- Effect; end; consequence; as, the prince was flattered to
his ruin; he engaged in a war to his cost; violent factions exist to
the prejudice of the state.