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  • noun Plural form of bastinado.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bastinado.

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Examples

  • I was so long in delivering it that the imam began to be angry; and, perceiving I was a Christian, he cried out for help; they carried me before the cadi, who ordered me to receive one hundred bastinadoes, and sent me to the galleys.

    Candide 2007

  • So the grey-bearded ones of the village advised with one another; and those who had been inaccessible to bastinadoes, somehow found money at the calling of interest; and the Sheikh, and they, and the five hundred purses, set off on the road to the capital.

    Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

  • So lifting up the Cudgell, he gave him therewith halfe a score good bastinadoes, laying them on soundly, both on his armes and shoulders: and Egano feeling the smart of them, durst not speake one Worde, but fled away from him so fast as hee could, Anichino still following, and multiplying many other injurious speeches against him, with the Epithites of Strumpet, lustfull and insatiate

    The Decameron 2004

  • When the brethren had heard and observed all these occurrences; in most bitter manner they railed on Arriguccio, bestowing some good bastinadoes on him beside, concluding thus with him in the end.

    The Decameron 2004

  • “Now, Sir, receive four hundred bastinadoes for your pains, and pay me 30,000 ducats; you will then take care in future how you give me advice.”

    Travels in Morocco 2003

  • The bastinadoes with which he had been treated were inflicted on his bare person, cold water being applied thereto, which made the punishment more severe.

    Travels in Morocco 2003

  • R. noticed the fellow, and afterwards told the Bey, who instantly ordered him to receive two hundred bastinadoes, and to be put in chains; but, just as they had begun to whip him, R. went up and generously begged him off.

    Travels in Morocco 2003

  • This done, Catchpole is rich for four months at least, as if bastinadoes were his real harvest; for the monk, levite, usurer, or lawyer will reward him roundly; and my gentleman must pay him such swingeing damages that his acres must bleed for it, and he be in danger of miserably rotting within a stone doublet, as if he had struck the king.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • And, which is more, he would now and then make Alexander the Great mad, so enormously would he abuse him when he had not well patched his breeches; for he used to pay his skin with sound bastinadoes.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • That which he doth, is only to conskite, spoil, and defile all, which is the cause wherefore he hath of all men mocks, frumperies, and bastinadoes.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

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