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▪ I. scourging, vbl. n.|ˈskɜːdʒɪŋ|
[f. scourge v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. scourge.
1. Infliction of blows with a whip. Also fig.
a1340Hampole Psalter xxxi. 13 Many ere þe scourgynges the swyngyns of synful: bot hopand in lord mercy sall vmgif. c1425Processional Nuns Chester (1899) 31 Ihu thy Crowne satt full soore and thy scowrgynge when thow bett wore. 1513Douglas æneis vii. vi. 133 Thou may skurgeyngis and strakis in lugeings rais, And thow of frendis may mak mortale fays. 1563–83Foxe A. & M. 2060/1 The scourging of Thomas Greene. c1570W. Wager The longer thou livest 142 (Brandl), I am good at scourging of my Toppe. 1625T. Godwin Moses & Aaron v. (1641) 206 This beating or scourging was commanded, Deut. 25. 2, 3. where the number of stripes was limited, which the Iudge might not exceed. 1796Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 390 You remember with what indignation I heard of the scourging of the solider at Carrick. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. I. 257 In spite of all the scourgings I suffered at that school. 1893Athenæum 30 Sept. 445/3 Those whom we have seen put to death certainly bore no traces of recent scourging.
b. As a part of religious discipline.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. 1055 Thanne is discipline eek in knokkynge of thy brest, in scourgynge with yerdes, in knelynges. a1425Cursor M. 23289 (Trin.) And for þei wolde no scourgyng þole for loue of heuen kyng þei shul be beten euer on on. a1440Found. St. Bartholomew's (E.E.T.S.) 41 Betwene oure squorgyng, ȝeue we thankyngys to God. 1665J. Spencer Disc. Vulg. Proph. 42 Severe disciplines of the body by excessive fastings and scourgings.
†2. transf. Correction. Obs. rare.
c1374Chaucer Compl. Mars 42 And þus she norissheþe him in hir manere With no thinge but with skowrginge of hir chere.
3. A picture of the scourging of Our Lord: = flagellation b.
1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) II. 350 Here is also the scourging of Christ, and the four seasons by Albani.
4. The action of impoverishing the soil by reckless methods of cultivation.
1842J. Aiton Dom. Econ. (1857) 192 Let the same rule hold in respect to an outgoing incumbent which restricts an outgoing tenant, and let that rule be—no scourging.
▪ II. ˈscourging, ppl. a.
[f. scourge v. + -ing2.]
1. That chastises with a scourge. lit. and fig.
c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxxiii. ii, The scourging plagues, which on their neighbours fall, Torment not them. 1602Marston Antonio's Rev. iv. iii, There is a thing cald scourging Nemesis. 1600C. Edmonds Observ. Cæsar's Comm. vii. xv. 79 Our English nation caried a scourging hand in France. 1706E. Ward Hud. Rediv. I. v. 20 Next, lay thy scourging Hand, good L..d Upon that High-Church Scribe, Ned Ward.
2. That impoverishes (ground under cultivation).
a1799Sir W. Murray in J. Robertson Agric. Perth 167 note, Perhaps lint..is not a very scourging crop. 1851Chamb. Jrnl. 3 May 279/2 Exhausting the natural soil with a scourging succession of grain crops. |