Lexicographical Neighbors of Bastinaded
Literary usage of Bastinaded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Explanatory Commentary on Esther: With Four Appendices Consisting of the by Paulus Cassel (1888)
"... viz. that when the inundation of the Hellespont had destroyed his bridges, he
gave order that it should be bastinaded for disobedience (Herod, vii. 35). ..."
2. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"... low-born wretches with the dirt hardly wiped off them, decked out with the
title of boyar; primates bastinaded by the first Turks who came along, ..."
3. The Manners & Customs of the Modern Egyptians by Edward William Lane (1908)
"... very severely bastinaded ; but the only confession that could be drawn from
him by the torture which he endured was, that he had received nothing more ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1823)
"... Metellus bastinaded his wife to death, for having too freely indulged in the
use of wine: nor was anyperson found either to call him publicly to account ..."
5. An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians by Edward William Lane (1871)
"... denying the imposition of which he had been made the principal instrument,
was, by order of the Basha, very severely bastinaded; but the only confession ..."
6. The Library of Original Sources: Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"The council is then assembled ; the cause is judged by the tribune, and the guilty
person sentenced to be bastinaded. This punishment is inflicted in the ..."
7. Mary Howitt: An Autobiography by Mary Botham Howitt (1889)
"What, then, was our surprise and horror, when Rosa rushed into the drawing-room,
shrieking that " the bir- bone (rascal) of a landlord had bastinaded her;" ..."
8. The General History of Polybius by Polybius (1823)
"assembled; the cause is judged by the tribune, and the guilty person sentenced
to be bastinaded. This punishment is inflicted in the following manner. ..."
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