单词 | scourger |
释义 | scourgern. 1. a. One who scourges or flogs; † an official charged with the duty of whipping offenders. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > one who scourges or whips whipper1552 jerker1565 scourger1580 lasher1611 firkera1626 whipster1670 yarker1677 bone-polisher1803 horsewhipper1808 flagellator1824 thong-man1876 sjambokker1953 society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > official who administers scourger1580 flesh-dresser1620 drubman1629 flogging-cove1699 flog-mastera1704 flagellant1876 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Rabroveur de petits enfans, a scourger, a rebuker of children by the way. 1612 R. Sheldon 1st Serm. after Conversion 23 The mercilesse scourgers whipped and tormented him. 1662 Aberdeen Reg. (1872) IV. 203 The tuo litle housses under the Gallowgait Port to be ane duelling hous to the said scurger dureing his service. 1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxxiii. 332 Every district magistrate has..a scourger, to inflict corporal punishment. 1886 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David VII. Ps. cxxix. 3 The scourgers tore the flesh as ploughmen furrow a field. b. (See quot. 1892.) ΚΠ 1892 Labour Comm. Gloss. Scourger, a cab-driver who treats his horse with undue severity. 2. figurative. One who punishes or oppresses; one who ‘lashes’ with satire or invective. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > [noun] > one who punishes punishera1387 chastiserc1440 scourger1533 visitor1545 executioner1578 visiter1608 lictor1638 animadverter1694 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [noun] > critic > severe untrusser1600 mammothrept1617 Aristarch1621 scarificator1748 scourge1756 tomahawker1795 monsterer1840 scarifier1862 scourger1881 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. ii. xv. 189 The pepill had na litill Indignacioun, þat þis marcius suld rise sa haistelie to be þare new fleschour and skurgeare. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1242/2 Joseph de Chancie..was tresuror in the second yeere of the scourger of the Scots king Edward the first. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. lii. 34 The West must own the Scourger of the world. 1881 W. R. Nicoll Incarnate Saviour xxiii. 377 He was the scourger of Pharisees. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > disciplinant > [noun] scourger1537 disciplinant1549 flagellant1570 flagellist1833 society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > penance > [noun] > by beating > person performing scourger1537 flagellant1570 flagelliferan1607 whipstock1640 whippera1656 flagellator1691 flagellist1833 1537 tr. Original & Sprynge All Sectes 22 Scourgers of the .I. secte. 1537 tr. Original & Sprynge All Sectes 37 Scourgers of the .II. secte. 1728 N. Tindal tr. P. Rapin de Thoyras Hist. Eng. VI. 467 The Sect of the Scourgers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1533 |
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