Both Uses of
goad
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Every sense of the flesh is tortured and every faculty of the soul therewith: the eyes with impenetrable utter darkness, the nose with noisome odours, the ears with yells and howls and execrations, the taste with foul matter, leprous corruption, nameless suffocating filth, the touch with redhot goads and spikes, with cruel tongues of flame.†
Chpt 3 *
- Ever to be in hell, never to be in heaven; ever to be shut off from the presence of God, never to enjoy the beatific vision; ever to be eaten with flames, gnawed by vermin, goaded with burning spikes, never to be free from those pains; ever to have the conscience upbraid one, the memory enrage, the mind filled with darkness and despair, never to escape; ever to curse and revile the foul demons who gloat fiendishly over the misery of their dupes, never to behold the shining raiment of…†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(goad) to a human: to provoke or encourage someone to do something -- usually something bad and often provoking in an annoying manner
to an animal: to prod or poke with a pointed stick to make it move