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scourger|ˈskɜːdʒə(r)|
Also 6 Sc. skurgeare, 7 Sc. scurger.
[f. scourge v. + -er.]
1. One who scourges or flogs; † an official charged with the duty of whipping offenders.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Rabroveur de petits enfans, a scourger, a rebuker of children by the way. 1612R. Sheldon Serm. St. Martin's 23 The mercilesse scourgers whipped and tormented him. 1662Aberdeen Reg. (1872) IV. 203 The tuo litle housses under the Gallowgait Port to be ane duelling hous to the said scurger dureing his service. 1828P. Cunningham N.S. Wales (ed. 3) II. 321 Every district magistrate has..a scourger, to inflict corporal punishment. 1886Spurgeon Treas. Dav. cxxix. 3 The scourgers tore the flesh as ploughmen furrow a field.
b. (See quot.)
1892Labour Commission Gloss., Scourger, a cab-driver who treats his horse with undue severity.
2. fig. One who punishes or oppresses; one who ‘lashes’ with satire or invective.
1533Bellenden Livy ii. xv. (S.T.S.) I. 189 The pepill had na litill Indignacioun, þat þis marcius suld rise sa haistelie to be þare new fleschour and skurgeare. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 1242/2 Joseph de Chancie..was tresuror in the second yeere of the scourger of the Scots king Edward the first. 1812Byron Ch. Har. i. lii, The West must own the Scourger of the World. 1881W. R. Nicoll Incarn. Saviour xxiii. 377 He was the scourger of Pharisees.
†3. = flagellant. Obs.
1537Orig. & Sprynge of Sectes 22 Scourgers of the .I. secte. Ibid. 37 Scourgers of the .II. secte. 1728Tindal Rapin's Hist. Eng. VI. 467 The Sect of the Scourgers. |