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Definition of Scourged
1. scourge [v] - See also: scourge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scourged
Literary usage of Scourged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"that the just man who is thought unjust will be scourged, racked, bound—will have
his eyes burnt out; and, at last, after suffering every kind of evil, ..."
2. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by American Committee of Revision (1881)
"when he had scourged him, to be crucified. 16 And the soldiers led him away ...
and come down from the cross. delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, ..."
3. The Gospel According to St. John: The Authorized Version by Brooke Foss Westcott (1882)
"This was his punishment (Pilate toot ... and scourged ... contrasted with v.
6, Take ye... and crucify...). Scourging was itself part of a capital sentence, ..."
4. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1918)
"He has been inside this order; he has ridden on its raids; he has scourged the
back of the dark Republican, but he has repented it, and now he comes ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"The unhappy youth, who might have excited .he compassion of the most savage enemy,
was scourged, tortured, and publicly executed by the inhuman Romans. ..."
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