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Definition of Fustigate
1. Verb. Strike with a cudgel.
Definition of Fustigate
1. v. t. To cudgel.
Definition of Fustigate
1. Verb. (transitive) To hit someone with a club. ¹
2. Verb. (figuratively) To harshly criticize someone. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fustigate
1. [v -GATED, -GATING, -GATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fustigate
Literary usage of Fustigate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1900)
"... another name of Cairo, in Egypt, whence the stuff first came, ^f Introduced
through Genoese commerce. Fusty ; see fust (i), under Fust (»). fustigate ..."
2. The Story of the Stick in All Ages and Lands: A Philosophical History and by Antony Réal (1892)
"After having served to fustigate the shoulders of the human race, it was used to
fustigate its eccentricities—snatched from court and church, ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1881)
"... fustigate; chastise. sii. a seam. Welting, sb. a beating ; also, a seam; a
seaming. Wer, pr. posa., var. pron. of ' our. ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"Whereupon these serpent-haired extreme she-patriots do now fasten upon, batter
her, shamefully fustigate her, in their shameful way ; almost fling her into ..."
5. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... but then for Liberty with Respectability: whereupon these serpent-haired
Extreme She Patriots do now fasten on her, tatter her, shamefully fustigate her ..."
6. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles. Darwin (1875)
"... and fustigate varieties, and of trees bearing deeply cut, variegated, and
purple leaves, shows that these deviations of structure ..."
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