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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of bastinado.

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Examples

  • They won't come again till to-night, if they come at all, but in the meantime I feel as if I had been bastinadoed.

    THE KANAKA SURF 2010

  • So they bastinadoed him and pinioned him; after which the Syndic and all the people of the jewel-market arose and set out for the palace, saying, “We have caught the thief.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • So they bastinadoed him, till he could no longer groan, and cast him among the prisoners.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • They replied, “We tell thee naught save what we know;” but he was an angered with them and bastinadoed them.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Apart from being “a grave mischief,” that would be an embarrassment to liberalism, as “bastinadoed fellahin would be reported to Parliament at the rate of a hundred cases a week.”

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • Apart from being “a grave mischief,” that would be an embarrassment to liberalism, as “bastinadoed fellahin would be reported to Parliament at the rate of a hundred cases a week.”

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • They were bastinadoed on their stomachs without injury, and placed before a large fire; but, being defended by certain pomades and preparations, were not burned.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Apart from being “a grave mischief,” that would be an embarrassment to liberalism, as “bastinadoed fellahin would be reported to Parliament at the rate of a hundred cases a week.”

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • Thus spoke Ardassan Ougli, after being bastinadoed by one of his masters.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • After having been so heartily kicked, flogged, and bastinadoed; after having been in an earthquake; having seen Doctor Pangloss once hanged, and very lately burned; after having been outraged by

    Candide 2007

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