Sadism
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A mental disease in which the sexual instinct is abnormal or perverted. See 32 Nev. 384, Ann. Cas. 1912D, 223, 108 Pac. 934.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
That state of sexual perversion in man in which the sexual inclination manL fests itself by the desire to beat, to maltreat, humiliate and even to kill the person for whom the passion is conceived. 3 Witth. & Beck, Med. Jur. 739. S^VITIA (Lat.). Cruelty. To constitute scevitia there must be such a degree of cruelty as to endanger the party’s suffering bodily