Definition of Bastinadoes

1. Noun. (plural of bastinado) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of bastinado) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bastinadoes

1. bastinado [v] - See also: bastinado

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bastinadoes

bastes
bastide
bastides
bastile
bastiles
bastille
bastilles
bastillion
bastillions
bastinade
bastinaded
bastinades
bastinading
bastinado
bastinadoed
bastinadoes (current term)
bastinadoing
bastinados
basting
bastings
bastion
bastioned
bastions
bastirma
bastle
bastles
bastnaesite
bastnaesites
bastnasite
bastnasites

Literary usage of Bastinadoes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770 by James Bruce (1804)
"He is now fled to my house for protection, where he continues, being much troubled with the gout in his hands and feet; a 100 bastinadoes would kill him, ..."

2. The History of the Church of Christ: From the Days of the Apostles, Till the by Joseph Milner (1835)
"He banished the bishop Donation, after giving him a hundred and fifty bastinadoes. He treated others also with great cruelty, and forbade any of his sect to ..."

3. The Metropolitan (1835)
"At last they settled that, as a commencement, I should receive five hundred bastinadoes on the soles of my feet, and if I lived, about as many more on my ..."

4. The life of Bruce, the African traveller by Francis Bond Head (1844)
"The same day it was proposed to give my vice-consul, Mr. Forbes, a thousand bastinadoes, to extort from him a confession of the contents of my papers. ..."

5. The Life and Adventures of Bruce, the African Traveller by Francis Bond Head (1840)
"... or room to lie in, and subsist wholly on an allowance from me The same day it was proposed to give my vice-consul, Mr. Forbes, a thousand bastinadoes, ..."

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