Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the rod, or to its use in punishment by flogging.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the rod or punishment with the rod.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the
rod orpunishment with the rod.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The baculine method was a quite common mode of argument in those days.
The Virginians 2006
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He went on playing for a delightful half-hour; (how swiftly, in the blessed amusement, it passed away!) he reduced several of the sticksters to bankruptcy by his baculine skill; he returned to the carriage laden with jacks, wooden apples and soldiers, enough to amuse all the nurseries in Pimlico.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various
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The baculine method was a quite common mode of argument in those days.
The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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To crack a _baculine_ joke over their sconces would involve an expense which the worthy philosophers were not worth.
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