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Definition of Fustigation
1. n. A punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling.
Definition of Fustigation
1. Noun. a beating with a club ¹
2. Noun. (context: by extension) a harsh verbal assault ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fustigation
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Fustigation
1. A form of massage consisting in beating the surface with light rods. Origin: L. Fustigo, pp. -atus, to beat with a cudgel (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fustigation
Literary usage of Fustigation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Book about the Clergy by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1870)
"It was usually called ' fustigation,' and the ... Not less painful than an ordinary
fustigation, and far more dreaded than the stick because of the ..."
2. Heresy Proceedings in Languedoc, 1500-1560 by Raymond A. Mentzer (1984)
"A certain M. Richier called for the amende honorable, fustigation, ... was sentenced
to the amende honorable, fustigation, perpetual banishment from the ..."
3. Brésil by Ferdinand Denis, César Famin (1837)
"... ordinairement dans la fustigation, et dans la illusion plus ou moins prolongée.
... où la fustigation lui est administrée des mains du bourreau, ..."
4. Essay on the "Scripture Doctrines of Adultery and Divorce, and on the by Henry Virtue Tebbs (1822)
"It is taken from * " Crime d'Adultère pour la premiere fois est puni a peine de
courir la ville sans fustigation et de banissement arbitraire de la ville et ..."
5. The royal phraseological English-French, French-English dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1853)
"fustigation,»./, fustigation ; flogging. FUT, я. m. Le fût d'un fútil, the stock
of a gun ..."
6. Lippincott's Medical dictionary: A Complete Vocabulary of the Terms Used in by Ryland W. Greene, Joseph Thomas (1906)
"See fustigation. E. hand, the hand when used as an electrode by application to
the surface undergoing ..."
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