单词 | flagellant |
释义 | flagellantn.adj. 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. 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. 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). < n.adj.1570 |
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