fustigatev.
/ˈfʌstᵻɡeɪt/, U.S. /ˈfəstəˌɡeɪt/ Now humorously pedantic.figurative (absol.)1888 Sat. Rev. 2 June 667 He brands, he bruises, he fustigates; he stamps his victims ridiculous.
transitive. To cudgel, beat.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > with cudgel
becudgel1591
rib-baste1598
craba1625
fustigate1656
gallantify1672
the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person
to-beatc893
threshOE
bustc1225
to lay on or upon?c1225
berrya1250
to-bunea1250
touchc1330
arrayc1380
byfrapc1380
boxc1390
swinga1400
forbeatc1420
peal?a1425
routa1425
noddlea1450
forslinger1481
wipe1523
trima1529
baste1533
waulk1533
slip1535
peppera1550
bethwack1555
kembc1566
to beat (a person) black and blue1568
beswinge1568
paik1568
trounce1568
canvass1573
swaddle?1577
bebaste1582
besoop1589
bumfeage1589
dry-beat1589
feague1589
lamback1589
clapperclaw1590
thrash1593
belam1595
lam1595
beswaddle1598
bumfeagle1598
belabour1600
tew1600
flesh-baste1611
dust1612
feeze1612
mill1612
verberate1614
bethumpa1616
rebuke1619
bemaul1620
tabor1624
maula1627
batterfang1630
dry-baste1630
lambaste1637
thunder-thump1637
cullis1639
dry-banga1640
nuddle1640
sauce1651
feak1652
cotton1654
fustigate1656
brush1665
squab1668
raddle1677
to tan (a person's) hide1679
slam1691
bebump1694
to give (a person) his load1694
fag1699
towel1705
to kick a person's butt1741
fum1790
devel1807
bray1808
to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813
mug1818
to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821
welt1823
hidea1825
slate1825
targe1825
wallop1825
pounce1827
to lay into1838
flake1841
muzzle1843
paste1846
looder1850
frail1851
snake1859
fettle1863
to do over1866
jacket1875
to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877
to take apart1880
splatter1881
to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884
to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886
to do up1887
to —— (the) hell out of1887
to beat — bells out of a person1890
soak1892
to punch out1893
stoush1893
to work over1903
to beat up1907
to punch up1907
cream1929
shellac1930
to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931
duff1943
clobber1944
to fill in1948
to bash up1954
to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976
to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983
beast1990
becurry-
fan-
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Fustigate, to beat with a staff, to cudgel.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Westmorl. 136 Falling out with his Steward..and fustigating him for his faults.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. iii. viii. 214 These serpen-haired Extreme She-Patriots now do..shamefully fustigate her.
1851 R. F. Burton Goa 168 Our panting steeds, whom the Vetterino was fustigating.
1879 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 31 May 813 She may now leave the business to the small patient himself, provided he be old and sensible enough to fustigate himself systematically.
Derivatives
ˈfustigated adj.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [adjective] > that has been beaten with stick or cudgel
fustigated1727
tunded1876
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Fustigated, beaten with a Cudgel.
ˈfustigator n. one who fustigates or beats (another).
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the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > [noun] > specific object a person > one who
lambacker1593
contunder1820
fustigator1865
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Nov. 9 We shall hear by an early mail of the magistrate himself having been assaulted..as soon as the gallant fustigator is liberated on bail.
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