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vapulation rare.|væpjuːˈleɪʃən|
[ad. L. *vāpulātio, n. of action f. vāpulāre: see prec. Cf. Sp. vapulacion.]
A beating or flogging. Also transf.
1656Blount Glossogr., Vapulation, a beating or scourging. 1706E. Ward Lond. Spy ii. Wks. (ed. 3) I. 33 Like an Offender at a Whipping-Post,..the more importunate he seems for their favourable usage, the severer Vapulation they are to exercise upon him. 1791Hampson Mem. J. Wesley III. 5 A strapping colonel interposing, the vapulation did not take place. |
