An assistant (and eventual successor) to an abbess
excruciate
excruciate
adj
(obsolete) Excruciated; tortured.
verb
(transitive) To inflict intense pain or mental distress on (someone); to torture.
luxuriance
luxuriance
noun
The property of being luxuriant.
luxuriancy
luxuriancy
noun
Obsolete form of luxuriance.
osculatrix
osculatrix
noun
(geometry) A curve whose contact with a given curve at a given point is of a higher order (or involves the equality of a greater number of successive differential coefficients of the ordinates of the curves taken at that point) than that of any other curve of the same kind.
