fustigation

A beating with a club, rod, stick, etc.; a cudgeling.

Noun

  1. A beating with a club, rod, stick, etc.; a cudgeling.
    • Slighter palm of martyrdom, however, shall not be denied: martyrdom not of massacre, yet of fustigation. - 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter I, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London:...
  2. Any kind of beating or flagellation.
    • Frenzied scenes of fustigations appear in his Historie de Juliette, published in six volumes in 1797. - 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 97:
  3. a harsh verbal assault

Forms

fustigations

Related

fustigate