单词 | bastinadoing |
释义 | bastinadoingn. The action or an act of beating or thrashing a person with a stick, cane, etc., esp. on the soles of the feet; beating of this sort used as a form of corporal punishment or torture. Cf. bastinado n., bastinado v. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > beating on soles of feet bastinado1572 bastinading1583 bastinadoing1614 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 63 The punishment for periury was inflicted, that was Fustigatio..bastinadoing. 1780 J. Brett tr. B. J. Feijóo y Montenegro Ess. II. 59 He who shall be found to falsify, is adjudged to a rigorous bastinadoing. 1861 A. Wehnert tr. H. C. Andersen Tales 126 If she does not appear at the proper time in my palace, then, at supper-time, the whole court shall receive a sound bastinadoing on their empty stomachs. 1923 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 May 353/3 The account of a bastinadoing makes most funny reading; the executioners had to pretend to lay on because they were observed. 2007 Afr. News (Nexis) 19 Sept. The British records also indicate routine torture including flogging was inflicted on prisoners of war. Also popular was bastinadoing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1614 |
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