Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
bastinado .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
bastinado , n. - transitive verb Archaic To bastinado.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A blow with a
stick orcudgel . - noun A sound beating with a stick or cudgel, specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet.
- verb To beat in this manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He spoke with the most noble disdain to everyone, carried his nose so high, strained his voice to such a pitch, assumed so imperious an air, and stalked with so much loftiness and pride, that everyone who had the honor of conversing with him was violently tempted to bastinade his excellency.
Candide 2007
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He is sure to receive the bastinade, who forsakes his colours or quits his post.
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius
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He spoke with the most noble disdain to everyone, carried his nose so high, strained his voice to such a pitch, assumed so imperious an air, and stalked with so much loftiness and pride, that everyone who had the honor of conversing with him was violently tempted to bastinade His Excellency.
Candide 1918
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Justice, justice is all I ask – except the bastinade!
Hauff's Fairy Tales, Translated and Adapted Cicely Hauff McDonnell 1903
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Rais certainly ought not to do this, for he does not bastinade his Moors or Arab servants.
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828
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Bastinado, _to bastinade or flog a person_, Tapra'h_ai_.
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His sons and grandsons, of whom Timour left six-and-thirty at his decease, were his first and most submissive subjects; and whenever they deviated from their duty, they were corrected, according to the laws of Zingis, with the bastinade, and afterwards restored to honor and command.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765
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His sons and grandsons, of whom Timour left six-and-thirty at his decease, were his first and most submissive subjects; and whenever they deviated from their duty, they were corrected, according to the laws of Zingis, with the bastinade, and afterwards restored to honor and command.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Timour left six-and-thirty at his decease, were his first and most submissive subjects; and whenever they deviated from their duty, they were corrected, according to the laws of Zingis, with the bastinade, and afterwards restored to honor and command.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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a jelly -- I'll bastinade you till you won't know the Virgin from the
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