Verb (used with object) : to inflict punishment. ,The regime inflicted burdensome taxes on the people. From Dictionary.com.
Government can in fact outlaw certain procedures which it thinks especially inflictive of pain. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Does the Convention Against Torture apply to abortion?] Reference
Wherefore according to human judgment a man should never be condemned without fault of his own to an inflictive punishment, such as death, mutilation or flogging. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Scripture appear to speak of something more nearly inflictive; but it is better to conceive, in such cases, that the language is declarative only of what is coming to pass, by the fixed laws and causes of natural retribution, — which laws and causes have a self-propagating action without limit; for no disorder can issue itself in order. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.] Reference
Of that inflictive process, tuning. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference
The inflictive scourge of arbitrary power. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
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