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Afflict, to give bodily or mental pain, to distress, to grieve, to mortify: Lucr. 975. Wiv. IV, 2, 233. Meas. III, 1, 11. As III, 5, 33. H6A III, 1, 106. H6B II, 1, 182. H6C I, 4, 38. R3 V, 3, 179. Cor. I, 1, 20. Tit. I, 441. IV, 3, 62. IV, 4, 11. Rom. II, 4, 34. Tim. IV, 3, 337. Hml. II, 1, 106. II, 2, 17. Lr. I, 4, 313. Ant. III, 6, 78. Cymb. IV, 2, 40. Wint. V, 3, 75. --ed == distressed, unhappy, wretched: “this --ed fancy,” Compl. 61. “the --ed spirits in the prison here,” Meas. II, 3, 4. “the vile prison of --ed breath,” John III, 4, 19. “he looks much --ed,” H8 II, 2, 63.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.

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