fustigation
noun1
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: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book IV (Varennes), page 150:
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
Broadly a harsh verbal assault
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