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Definition of Bastinadoing
1. bastinado [v] - See also: bastinado
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bastinadoing
Literary usage of Bastinadoing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope by Hester Lucy Stanhope, Charles Lewis Meryon (1846)
"Some were concealed by the Christian peasants in cellars, although the punishment
of detection was a terrible bastinadoing. At the end of about a fortnight, ..."
2. Andersen's Tales for Children by Hans Christian Andersen (1861)
"And if she does not appear at the proper time in my palace, then, at supper-time,
the whole court shall receive a sound bastinadoing on their empty stomachs ..."
3. Tales for Children by Hans Christian Andersen, A. Wehnert (1869)
"And if she does not appear at the proper time in mv palace, then, at supper-time,
the whole court shall receive a sound bastinadoing on their empty stomachs ..."
4. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1893)
"... and other implements of sport, ready to perform impromptu farces of bastinadoing
and clothes- tearing, why, that was the demons' way of keeping a vigil, ..."
5. Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political by John Joseph Lalor (1883)
"... 2, bastinadoing; 3, Banishment; 4, Transportation for Life; 5, Death. The first
two punishments comprise five degrees of severity; the second, ..."
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