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Definition of Cudgelling
1. cudgel [v] - See also: cudgel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cudgelling
Literary usage of Cudgelling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Caesars by Thomas De Quincey (1851)
"or cudgelling the inferior soldiers: 'propterea vitis in manum data,' says Salmasius,
... cudgelling ..."
2. Picturesque Views on the River Thames by Samuel Ireland (1792)
"... about eighty years after, much improved by the proud prelate Boniface, who
retired hither to make hiá peace with heaven, after cudgelling the fub- prior ..."
3. A smaller Hindustani and English dictionary by DUNCAN. FORBES (1861)
"... to roar, to f. cudgelling ; fraud, a decoy. A. [bnwl. A. latent concealed,
absent, invisible, mysterious, ..."
4. The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men ...by William Hone by William Hone (1841)
"Single-stick playing is so called to distinguish it from cudgelling, ... The object
of each gamester in this play, as in cudgelling, is to guard himself, ..."
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