| 单词 | a whip or lash of scorpions |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa whip or lash of scorpions a. In the figurative passage 1 Kings xii. 11 (and 2 Chron. x. 11), where chastisement ‘with scorpions’ is referred to as a symbol for severe oppression, the word has commonly been supposed to denote a kind of whip made of knotted cords, or armed with plummets of lead or steel spikes, so as to inflict excessive pain. Allusions to the passage are common, esp. (after Milton) in the phrase a whip or lash of scorpions. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whip or scourge > with spikes scorpion1382 scorpion lash1744 scorpion whip1824 scorpion-scourge1900 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 2 Chron. x. 11 My fader beet ȝou with scourgis, I forsothe schal beten ȝou with scorpiouns [a1425 L.V. Y schal bete ȝou with scorpiouns, that is, hard knottid roopis]. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 229 If he hem smot with roddis smale, With Scorpions thou schalt hem smyte. a1632 T. Taylor God's Judgem. (1642) i. i. x. 26 They..chose rather to bee..scourged with Scorpions..than yeeld to deny their Maker. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 701 Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings, Least with a whip of Scorpions I pursue Thy lingring. View more context for this quotation 1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings (1790) I. xx. 180 I speak my thoughts freely, though I know the editors of newspapers have vengeance in their own hands, and are able to repel their assailants, with a lash of scorpions. 1816 Ld. Byron Siege of Corinth xxi. 32 Scourge, with a whip of scorpions, those Whom vice and envy made my foes. < as lemmas |
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