2. Verb. (third-person singular of bastinado) ¹
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Definition of Bastinadoes
1. bastinado [v] - See also: bastinado
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bastinadoes
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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