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fustigation|fʌstɪˈgeɪʃən|
[ad. L. fūstīgātiōn-em, n. of action f. fūstīgāre to fustigate. Cf. F. fustigation.]
The action of cudgelling or beating.
1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 609/2 This penance..to be done..that is to say, six fustigations or displings about the parish church of Aldborough. 1614Selden Titles Hon. 64 That punishment of Fustigation was it seems, instituted by Antoninus and Commodus. 1667Earl of Bristol Elvira ii. in Hazl. Dodsley XV. 32 Heaven send him a light hand To whom my fustigation shall belong. 1715tr. C'tess D'Aunoy's Wks. 205 Don Pedro cry'd so loud at that fustigation. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. iv. i, Martyrdom not of massacre, yet of fustigation. 1860J. C. Jeaffreson Bk. about Doctors I. 7 For many centuries fustigation was believed in as a sovereign remedy for bodily ailments.
fig.1858Motley Corr. (1889) I. 249 Lord Clarendon in the Lords administered a most serious fustigation. |
