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单词 flagellant
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flagellantn.adj.

Brit. /ˈfladʒᵻlənt/, /ˈfladʒᵻln̩t/, /ˈfladʒl̩(ə)nt/, /fləˈdʒɛlənt/, /fləˈdʒɛln̩t/, /ˈfladʒələnt/, U.S. /ˈflædʒələnt/, /fləˈdʒɛlənt/
Etymology: < Latin flagellant-em, present participle of flagellāre to whip, < flagellum : see flagelle n.
A. n.
1. One who scourges himself by way of religious discipline or penance; esp. one of a sect of fanatics (Latin flagellantes) that arose in the 13th cent. Usually plural.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > disciplinant > [noun]
scourger1537
disciplinant1549
flagellant1570
flagellist1833
society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > asceticism or mortification > [noun] > by beating > person
flagellant1570
flagelliferan1607
whipstock1640
whippera1656
flagellator1691
flagellist1833
society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > penance > [noun] > by beating > person performing
scourger1537
flagellant1570
flagelliferan1607
whipstock1640
whippera1656
flagellator1691
flagellist1833
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 203/2 Flagellantes, going barefoote in long whyte lynnen shyrtes, with an open place in the backe.
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 323 In their Ninevites or Flagellants.
1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity II. ix. 213 There arose..a sect..called the Flagellants, or whippers.
1857 S. Winkworth Life Tauler in Tauler's Serm. 126 Then appeared the ghastly processions of the Flagellants.
2. In wider sense (chiefly transferred from A. 1): One who flagellates (himself or others).
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > asceticism or mortification > [noun] > by beating > person > one who beats himself or others
Whipping Tom1681
flagellant1785
society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > penance > [noun] > by beating > person performing > on himself or others
Whipping Tom1681
flagellant1785
society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > official who administers
scourger1580
flesh-dresser1620
drubman1629
flogging-cove1699
flog-mastera1704
flagellant1876
1785 E. Burke Speech Nabob Arcot's Debts 9 These modern flagellants are sure..to whip their own enormities on the vicarious back of every small offender.
1855 J. R. Planché tr. Countess d'Aulnoy Gracieuse & Percinet (1858) 8 The flagellants so fatigued themselves, that they could no longer lift their arms.
1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such ii. 29 That modern sect of Flagellants who make a ritual of lashing—not themselves but—all their neighbours.
figurative.1849 Bp. of Exeter in Croker Papers (1884) III. xxvi. 194 This coincidence of opinion avowed by his [Macaulay's] intending panegyrist with that of his actual flagellant.in combination.1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. v. 199 The unhappy teacher had sometimes to perform the duties of a flagellant-general.
B. adj.
Given to flagellation, flagellating.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [adjective] > that uses whip or scourge
scourgingc1595
whipping1598
swingeinga1614
lashing1645
flagellant1880
1880 A. C. Swinburne Study of Shakespeare i. 27 The broad free sketches of the flagellant head-master of Eton.
figurative.1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. x. 253 So flagellant of herself was she.

Derivatives

flaˈgellantism n.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > with whip or scourging
scourginga1340
flagellation1490
flagitation1490
whipping1566
scutching1611
whip-broth1615
firka1635
horsewhipship1842
flagellantism1855
cowhiding1859
knouting1887
sjamboking1899
society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > asceticism or mortification > [noun] > by beating
scourgingc1386
flagellation1490
self-flagellation?1776
flagellantism1855
society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > penance > [noun] > by beating
scourgingc1386
flagellation1490
flagellantism1855
1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiv. i. 363 Wretched peasantry..maddened to Flagellantism.
1856 C. Kingsley Froude's Hist. Eng. in Misc. (1860) II. 74 The philosopher..may look on wars as in the same category with flagellantisms.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1570
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