Pain , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pained (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Paining.]
[OE. peinen, OF.
pener, F. peiner to fatigue. See Pain, n.]
1. To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. [Obs.] Wyclif (Acts xxii. 5).
2. To put
to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of
intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or
his wound pained him; his stomach pained him.
Excess of cold, as well
as heat, pains us.
Locke. 3. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his parents.
I am pained at my very heart.
Jer. iv. 19. To pain one's self, to exert or trouble one's
self; to take pains; to be solicitous. [Obs.] "She
pained her to do all that she might." Chaucer.
Syn. -- To disquiet; trouble; afflict; grieve; aggrieve; distress; agonize; torment; torture.
Pain (?), n. [OE.
peine, F. peine, fr. L.
poena, penalty, punishment, torment, pain; akin to
Gr. &?; penalty. Cf. Penal, Pine to languish, Punish.]
1. Punishment suffered or
denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or
connected with the commission of a crime; penalty. Chaucer.
We will, by way of mulct
or pain, lay it upon him.
Bacon. Interpose, on pain of my
displeasure.
Dryden.
None shall presume to fly, under pain of death.
Addison.
2. Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by
violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart. "The pain of Jesus Christ."
Chaucer.
&fist; Pain may occur in any
part of the
body where sensory nerves are distributed,
and it is always due to
some kind of stimulation of them. The sensation is generally referred to the peripheral end of the nerve.
3. pl. Specifically, the throes or travail of
childbirth.
She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her.
1 Sam. iv.
19. 4. Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. Chaucer.
In rapture as
in pain.
Keble. 5. See Pains, labor, effort.
Bill of pains and
penalties. See under
Bill. -- To die in the pain, to be tortured to death. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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