Persecution: alternatives and connections

To suffer pain; to have, or be in, pain, or in continued pain; to be distressed.

The infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed. It differs from a fine,in that the…

Obstinately and blindly attached to some creed, opinion practice, or ritual; unreasonably devoted to a system or party, and illiberal…

The infliction of evil; a sudden calamity; something which produces mental, physical, or financial suffering or loss (esp. when sudden…

The infliction of the death penalty upon one person in every hundred, as in cases of mutiny.

A long whip, such as is used in the East in the infliction of punishment.

A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religio…

An officer of the peace whose principal duty is to inquire, with the help of a jury, into the cause of any violent, sudden or mysterio…

The practice or the doctrine of strict adherence to, or dependence on, external forms, esp. in matters of religion.

A being conceived of as possessing supernatural power, and to be propitiated by sacrifice, worship, etc.; a divinity; a deity; an obje…

The worship of images as symbols; -- distinguished from idolatry, the worship of images themselves.

To worship idols; to pay idolatrous worship.

The worship of idols, images, or anything which is not God; the worship of false gods.

The act of inflicting or imposing; as, the infliction of torment, or of punishment.

Causing infliction; acting as an infliction.

The highest kind of worship, or that paid to God; -- distinguished by the Roman Catholics from dulia, or the inferior worship paid to…

That which accords with the letter; a mode of interpreting literally; adherence to the letter.

An established formula for public worship, or the entire ritual for public worship in a church which uses prescribed forms; a formular…