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scourged, ppl. a.|skɜːdʒd|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. Beaten, flogged.
1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. 232 Ye shall applye vpon the skourged place this cerote [following]. 1563–83Foxe A. & M. 2062/1 In this societie of the scourged professors of Christ, was also one Iames Harris. 1693S. Harvey Dryden's Juvenal ix. (1697) 238 Let the Great Man, whom gaping Crowds attend, Fear a scourg'd Slave. 1713Young Last Day ii. 242 Now tell the scourg'd Impostor he shall bleed! 1831Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 454 There will always be a difference of opinion on the amount of evil between the oppressor and the oppressed, between the scourger and the scourged. 1853O. W. Holmes Poem Amer. Med. Assoc. 47 The scourged racer.
trans.1821J. Baillie Metr. Leg., Wallace liv. 5 While the scourged oak and shaken pine Aloft in brighten'd verdure shine.
2. Of land: Exhausted by improper cultivation.
1880New Virginians I. 85 A sign of scourged land and disgraceful farming. |