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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of scourge.

Etymologies

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scourge +‎ -eth

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Examples

  • [E] verywhere in the matter of sublimity it is true of him (to adopt Homer's words) that, "The tail of him scourgeth his ribs and his flanks to left and to right,/And he lasheth himself into frenzy, and spurreth him on to the fight."

    On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010

  • [E] verywhere in the matter of sublimity it is true of him (to adopt Homer's words) that, "The tail of him scourgeth his ribs and his flanks to left and to right,/And he lasheth himself into frenzy, and spurreth him on to the fight."

    Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010

  • Jews yellow. 131 And every day she tortureth me and scourgeth me with an hundred stripes, each of which draweth floods of blood and cutteth the skin of my shoulders to strips; and lastly she clotheth my upper half with a hair cloth and then throweth over them these robes.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Trebizon and Soria,227 with bits in their mouths, reins in his228 left hand, and in his right hand a whip with which he scourgeth them; Amyras, Celebinus, Techelles,

    The Second Part of Tamburlaine the Great 2004

  • [249] "For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth."

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

    Hebrews 12. 1999

  • In all things blessed be God, Who scourgeth us, and also healeth our stripes, for though we lost above an hundred florins by the drowning of the horses, yet did the good Lord save us and our country from the army of the Duke of Burgundy, who was laying siege to Deventer; for after the

    The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes �� Kempis Thomas

  • For whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth: and he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

  • For whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth: and he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 65: Hebrews The Challoner Revision

  • For whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth: and he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous

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