torturer

noun

1. Someone who tortures.

   “I play the torturer by ſmall and ſmall / To lengthen out the worſt that muſt be ſpoken: […]”

   “My destruction might indeed arrive a few months sooner; but if my torturer should suspect that I postponed it, influenced by his menaces, he would surely find other, and perhaps more dreadful means of revenge.”

   “The torturers of any form of life torture the life. In this they are not only abominators of form, but haters of nature; and the violationist school is misozoic, life-hating; in continuation of that which it also is, misanthropic, or an enemy of mankind.”