Afflict
Afflict ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
[Latin afflictus, past participle of affigere to cast down, deject; ad + fligere to strike: compare Old French aflit, afflict, p. p. Compare Flagellate.]
1.
To strike or cast down; to overthrow. [Obsolete]
Reassembling our afflicted powers.
2.
To inflict some great injury or hurt upon, causing continued pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously; to torment.
They did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens.
That which was the worst now least afflicts me.
3.
To make low or humble. [Obsolete] — Spenser
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth.
Afflict , past participle and adjective
[Latin afflictus, p. p.]
Afflicted. [Obsolete] — Becon