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flagellator|ˈflædʒəleɪtə(r)| [agent-n. f. L. flagellāre to flagellate.] One who scourges or flogs. (In quot. 1691 = flagellant A 1.)
1691‘G. D'Emilianne’ Frauds Rom. Monks 358 In the midst of these Flagellators was carried a Representation of the Scourging of our Saviour. 1824Examiner 103/2 He was the flagellator of the boy Lynch. 1876Grant Burgh Sch. Scotl. ii. v. 198 The flagellator having been summoned before the Council, declares that the fault was not his. fig.1830G. Croly George IV, vi. 76 The rise of this grand flagellator [the newspaper press]. |