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Definition of Baculine
1. a. Of or pertaining to the rod or punishment with the rod.
Definition of Baculine
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the rod or punishment with the rod. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Baculine
1. pertaining to a rod [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baculine
Literary usage of Baculine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"The baculine method was a quite common mode of argument in those days. Sergeants,
schoolmasters, slave-overseers, used the cane freely. ..."
2. The Westminster Review by John Chapman, Charles William Wason (1903)
"... reflect upon the incalculable time and tuil worse than wasted in the fond and
futile struggle in forcing—chiefly by the barbarous baculine arguments of ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... and his approval of the knight who, finding a Jew likely to get the better of
a theological argument, resorted to- the baculine variety of logic, ..."
4. The Fortnightly Review (1868)
"Provided the reproaches of pickets and their emissaries comprise no baculine
arguments, and do not go beyond hooting or upbraiding, keeping clear also of ..."
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