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▪ I. flagellate, pa. pple. rare.|ˈflædʒəleɪt|
[ad. L. flagellāt-us, pa. pple. of flagellā-re to whip.]
Flagellated, scourged.
1876J. Ellis Cæsar in Egypt 145 Christ..was one time bound, With scorn assail'd, and flagellate with thongs.
▪ II. flagellate, a. and n.|ˈflædʒələt|
[f. flagell-um + -ate2.]
A. adj.
1. Biol.
a. Furnished with vibratile flagella.
b. = flagelliform.
1867Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. I. 306 The whole question..hinges upon the determination as to the animal or vegetable nature of the Monad-like, or so-called flagellate infusoria. 1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. ii. 79 Those flagellate Infusoria which are termed ‘monads’. 1878Bell Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. 21 The cell runs out into a fine process, and forms a flagellate cell.
2. Bot. Having runners or runner-like branches.
1882Vines Sachs' Bot. 379 The male branch may..become an ordinary flagellate branch.
B. n. A microscopic protozoan organism of the class Mastigophora (or Flagellata), characterized by the possession at some stage of its life of one or more flagella that are used for locomotion.
1879Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. XIX. 100 Sometimes the movements of the flagellum are energetic, and the organism then begins to move like a Flagellate, by help of its flagellum. 1897H. M. Bernard in A. H. Miles Concise Knowl. Nat. Hist. 718 It is impossible to draw any hard and fast line between the lowest plant and animal cells, and..such simple Flagellates may be regarded as belonging to a border land. 1924H. J. Van Cleave Invertebr. Zool. ii. 28 Relatively constant body form with usually one or two chromatophores characterize these small flagellates. 1949C. A. Hoare Handbk. Med. Protozool. v. 111 In addition to the flagellates of the alimentary and genital tracts,..human beings may be infected with flagellates living in the blood and cells of the reticulo-endothelial system. 1963H. Sandon Ess. Protozool. ii. 25 If we could trace the ancestry of all multi⁓cellular plants and animals back beyond the time of the earliest creatures capable of leaving fossil remains, most people agree that we should come to organisms which, if they lived today, would be included among the flagellates.
▪ III. flagellate, v.|ˈflædʒəleɪt|
[f. L. flagellāt- ppl. stem of flagellā-re, f. flagellum: see flagelle n.]
trans. To scourge, whip.
1623in Cockeram. 1721–82in Bailey. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. II. 173 To be insulted, flagellated, and even executed as a malefactor. 1837Landor Pentameron Wks. 1846 II. 313/2 [That] the angels were created only to flagellate and burn us. 1858R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma iii. 9 The outside passengers..proceeded to flagellate themselves into circulation.
fig.1804–8Foster in Life & Corr. (1846) I. lxi. 341, I flagellated myself in great anger. 1830Westm. Rev. XII. 274 The Quarterly could for once..flagellate an opponent without having recourse to its old art of wilful misrepresentation. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Wks. (Bohn) II. 39 Their drowsy minds need to be flagellated by war.
Hence ˈflagellated ppl. a.
1836E. Howard R. Reefer xiii, The flagellated boys contrived to hush up their sobs. 1884Pall Mall G. 29 July 3/2 The flagellated flesh visibly shuddered. |