flagellate1
/ˈfladʒ(ə)leɪt
/verb [with object]
Flog (someone), either as a religious discipline or for sexual gratification: he flagellated himself with branches...
- She was often biting and hitting Crystal; she was handcuffing her and flagellating her to the point of bleeding.
- Constantly flagellating him, or yourself, is not going to create the relationship of love you want to be in.
- Blood flows freely as Jesus Christ is flagellated by Roman soldiers and the scenes of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ are, indeed, not pleasant viewing.
Synonyms
flog, whip, beat, scourge, lash, birch, switch, tan, strap, belt, cane, thrash, leather, flail, flay, welt, horsewhip, tan/whip someone's hide, give someone a hiding, strike, hit, spank
informal beat the living daylights out of
Derivatives
flagellator
/ noun ...- It is true that the Roman flagellators are portrayed as viciously sadistic.
flagellatory
- By his own account it was his early experience of Catholicism which gave his work its self-flagellatory, sadomasochistic edge.
Origin
Early 17th century: from Latin flagellat- 'whipped', from flagellare.
flagellate2
/ˈfladʒ(ə)lət/ /ˈfladʒ(ə)leɪt/Zoology
noun
A protozoan that has one or more flagella used for swimming.
- Several phyla in the kingdom Protista (formerly subphylum Mastigophora, phylum Protozoa), including forms such as euglena that are sometimes regarded as algae.
- This amoeba is surrounded by fungi like the other protozoa examined, but the separation between the amoeba's cell membrane and the fungi is much narrower than with flagellates and ciliates.
- About 100 additional tubes developed greenish precipitates which, after inspection under the light microscope, turned out to be bacteria, dinoflagellates, diatoms, or green flagellates.
adjective
(Of a cell or single-celled organism) bearing one or more flagella: motile flagellate cells...
- This type of screen is biased toward reversion events that result in a high percentage of flagellate cells.
- Only one study has examined the importance of sperm length for sperm competition success in a species with more typical flagellate sperm.
- On the basis of this information it has been proposed that the earliest metazoans were probably wormlike organisms, similar to the larvae of modern cnidarians and developed from flagellate protists.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from flagellum + -ate2.
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