单词 | bastinade |
释义 | bastinaden. Now rare. A blow with a stick, cane, or similar weapon; a beating delivered in this way. Also (with the): beating of this sort used as a form of corporal punishment. Cf. bastinado n. 1, 3.In quot. 1562: figurative a defeat, a setback.In quot. 1992 in a historical novel. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > beating on soles of feet > as Eastern method of punishment bastinade1562 bastinado1577 1562 J. Shute tr. A. Cambini in Two Comm. Turcks sig. G.ii.v When Mahomethe had receuid this great bastonade and was retorned home, it is said that he became more temperate, and modeste. 1610 T. Fitzherbert 1st Pt. Treat. Policy & Relig. xxiii. 229 The very law of the Turks and Mahometans ordayneth..60. bastonades for such as blaspeme our Sauiour. 1707 W. Darrell Gentleman Instructed: 2nd Pt. xii. 237 They wou'd..submit to a Bastonade, rather than occasion Bloodshed. 1735 J. Ozell tr. L. J. C. S. d'Allainval L'embaras des Richesses: Plague of Riches iii. v. 128 That Expedient wou'd pluck on my Shoulders a Volly of Bastinades. 1813 J. C. Hobhouse Journey 297 Offenders, whom he may punish with the bastinade. 1922 New Castle (Pa.) News 9 June 23/5 They had to re-establish the bastonade; when immediately the capital of Denmark became again what it was before, the quietest city in the world. 1992 A. Kurzweil Case of Curiosities xv. 166 You deserve better than a bastinade. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bastinadev. Now rare. transitive. To beat or thrash (a person) with a stick, cane, or similar weapon, esp. on the soles of the feet; = bastinado v. Also figurative. Cf. bastinade n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > with cane, birch, or switch > on soles of feet bastinade1601 bastinado1601 drub1634 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 46 The euening following he is well bastinaded [It. bastonate]. 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. xxxviii. 257 The shah..ordered the executioners to bastonade him to death. 1856 Daily News 11 Oct. 4/5 The Austrians arrested at Bologna Alessandro Castegnoli, a student at that university, and bastonaded him twice, with several other students. 1968 Southwest Rev. 53 421 It began to rain. The rain became a deluge. It bastinaded them. DerivativesΚΠ a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo v. in Wks. (1721) III. 134 The starv'd bastinaded Slave in Chains. 1812 W. S. Landor Count Julian iv. i. 79 Some vile testy knave, Who spurns thee back with bastinaded foot For ignorance or delay of his command. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1562v.1601 |
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