scourgern.
/ˈskəːdʒə/, U.S. /ˈskərdʒər/ 1.
a. One who scourges or flogs; † an official charged with the duty of whipping offenders.
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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