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Definition of Fustigating
1. fustigate [v] - See also: fustigate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fustigating
Literary usage of Fustigating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Illustrations of Rhetorical Gesture and Action by Johann Jackob Engel, Henry Siddons (1822)
"alarm of Gavius, when dragged to undergo unmerited punishment, would be as false
as to imitate the action of the person fustigating him. ..."
2. Curiosities of Medical Experience by John Gideon Millingen (1839)
"... for it is well known that the saints took great delight in fustigating, not
only those who offended them, but their most faithful votaries. ..."
3. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1882)
"... giving them, cramps and rheums, and shivering agues and burning fevers, and
fustigating and tormenting not a few of the friars even to death ! ..."
4. The History of the Worthies of England by Thomas Fuller (1840)
"... an Italian, and fustigating him for his faults, the angry Italian poisoned
him.§ Herein something may be pleaded for this cardinal out of the Old (sure ..."
5. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1851)
"... by fustigating his name on the door-post with her little cane, and then limped
off in great haste to apply the same discipline to a spaniel who> was ..."
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