fustigate

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"This is all very fine: but the simple fact is, it is beginning to rain, and I think it advisable for us to beat, fustigate, (where _did_ you get that, Miranda?) or wallop, a retreat!"

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  1. transitive verb To beat with a club; cudgel.
  2. transitive verb To criticize harshly: "We followed [Ibsen] as he fustigates himself and us” (Patrice Chereau).

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  • "This is all very fine: but the simple fact is, it is beginning to rain, and I think it advisable for us to beat, fustigate, (where _did_ you get that, Miranda?) or wallop, a retreat!" —  The Merryweathers
  • For the Patriot women take their hazel wands, and fustigate, amid laughter of bystanders, with alacrity: broad bottom of —  The French Revolution
  • The Demoiselle, keeping her carriage, is for Liberty indeed, as she has full well shewn; but then for Liberty with Respectability: whereupon these serpent-haired Extreme She-Patriots now do fasten on her, tatter her, shamefully fustigate her, in their shameful way; almost fling her into the Garden-ponds, had not help intervened. —  The French Revolution
 

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  1. Late Latin fūstigāre, fūstigāt- : Latin fūstis, club + Latin agere, to do; see ag- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin fustigatus, past participle of fustigare (later Portuguese Spanish Provencal fustigar = French fustiger), cudgel to death, from fustis, a cudgel, + agere, drive.
 

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