catastan.

Etymology: < Latin catasta scaffold, stage for selling slaves, etc., also an engine of torture. According to Lewis and Short, < Greek κατάστασις settling, putting down, fixed state, etc. (? Thence Italian catasta funeral-pile, Portuguese catasta stall in which slaves are set for sale).

1. Historical. A block on which slaves were exposed for sale.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > stand or board on which goods exposed > block on which slaves stood

catasta1650

block1853

sale-block1887

1650 A. B. Mutatus Polemo 12 What will not money do with a Scot (now their Catasta is in readiness).

1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia I. xiii. 277 Standing an hour on the catasta to be handled from head to foot in the minimum of clothing.

2. Historical. A stage or bed of torture used in early Christian times.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > torture > instrument or place of torture > [noun] > stage for

catasta1687

1687 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II (ed. 2) II. vii. 91 How could they have sung in the midst of Flames, smiled upon Racks, triumphed upon Wheels and Catastaes.

†3. Humorously or affectedly used for the stocks (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > punishing by pillory or stocks > pillory or stocks

stocksc1325

pilloryc1330

stocka1382

gofe1489

stretchneck1543

harmans1567

foot trap1585

pigeonholes1592

jougs1596

berlina1607

halsfang1607

gorget1635

cippusa1637

nutcrackers1648

catasta1664

wooden cravat1676

the wooden ruff1677

neck stock1681

wooden casement1685

timber-stairsc1750

Norway neckcloth1785

law-neck-cloth1789

stoop1795

timber1851–4

nerve1854

1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. i. 20 In close Catasta shut [Annot. ed. 1694] Catasta is but a pair of Stocks in English.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	catasta
释义	catastan. Etymology: < Latin catasta scaffold, stage for selling slaves, etc., also an engine of torture. According to Lewis and Short, < Greek κατάστασις settling, putting down, fixed state, etc. (? Thence Italian catasta funeral-pile, Portuguese catasta stall in which slaves are set for sale). 1. Historical. A block on which slaves were exposed for sale. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > [noun] > stand or board on which goods exposed > block on which slaves stood catasta1650 block1853 sale-block1887 1650 A. B. Mutatus Polemo 12 What will not money do with a Scot (now their Catasta is in readiness). 1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia I. xiii. 277 Standing an hour on the catasta to be handled from head to foot in the minimum of clothing. 2. Historical. A stage or bed of torture used in early Christian times. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > instrument or place of torture > [noun] > stage for catasta1687 1687 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II (ed. 2) II. vii. 91 How could they have sung in the midst of Flames, smiled upon Racks, triumphed upon Wheels and Catastaes. †3. Humorously or affectedly used for the stocks (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > punishing by pillory or stocks > pillory or stocks stocksc1325 pilloryc1330 stocka1382 gofe1489 stretchneck1543 harmans1567 foot trap1585 pigeonholes1592 jougs1596 berlina1607 halsfang1607 gorget1635 cippusa1637 nutcrackers1648 catasta1664 wooden cravat1676 the wooden ruff1677 neck stock1681 wooden casement1685 timber-stairsc1750 Norway neckcloth1785 law-neck-cloth1789 stoop1795 timber1851–4 nerve1854 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. i. 20 In close Catasta shut [Annot. ed. 1694] Catasta is but a pair of Stocks in English. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1650
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