flagellationn.
/ˌfladʒᵻˈleɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌflædʒəˈleɪʃən/ 1. figurative.1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xx. 73 In all the places of thy flagellacyons, peynes and tormentes.1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) iv. v. sig. r.vi By syknesses, losses of godes, warres, and other flagellacyons.
a. The action of scourging; a flogging, whipping.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > with whip or scourging
scourginga1340
flagellation1490
flagitation1490
whipping1566
scutching1611
whip-broth1615
firka1635
horsewhipship1842
flagellantism1855
cowhiding1859
knouting1887
sjamboking1899
society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > with whip or scourging > instance of
swepinga1300
stripec1485
flagellation1490
whipping1566
whipping-cheer1578
to have a rod under (also at) one's girdle1580
switchinga1640
horsewhipping1829
rawhiding1848
bashing1877
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
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Dvi Sufferyng..intollerable tormentes, flegellacions, and moste cruell & bytter dethe.
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 466 Excoriating their bodies in processionary Flagellations.
1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. xxxi. 129 Speaking of his abstinence, his watchings, flagellations.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xiii. 114 A fearful instrument of flagellation, strong, supple, wax-ended.
1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 161 Mild flagellations..may be used to keep up the external capillary circulation.
b. spec. The scourging of Christ; a picture representing this.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > [noun] > scourging
flagellationc1426
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > religious painting > picture by subject
majestyc1450
the Visitation (of our Lady)1498
Our Lady Piety1533
annunciation1556
nativity1646
Pietàc1660
noli me tangerea1684
virgina1684
glory1708
flagellation1728
scourging1757
Mater Dolorosa1800
crucifixion1841
hortus conclusus1852
Hodegetria1880
Gethsemane1901
anastasis1995
c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 50 Vij blodes Crist He bled,..Þe þred in His flagellacion.
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1962) X. 243 In his flagellation and thornes.
a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 71 The first place they visited was that of the Pillar of Flagellation.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) We say..a Flagellation, to denote a Painting, or Print, representing this Torment inflicted on the Saviour of the World.
2. Biology.
a. The arrangement of flagella on an organism.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > physical arrangement or condition > [noun] > arrangement of flagella
flagellation1893
1893 J. Tuckey tr. B. Hatschek Amphioxus 164 The flagellation of the body.
b. = exflagellation n.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > types of reproduction > [noun] > others
adosculation1682
autogeny?1818
gemmation1836
parthenogenesis1849
virgin production1849
rejuvenescence1853
agamogenesis1857
monogeny1857
autogenesis1858
homogenesis1858
proliferation1864
monogenesis1866
swarming1867
paedogenesis1870
monogony1873
virginal generation1879
division1880
monogenesy1890
parthenogeny1890
anisogamy1891
isogamy1891
paragamy1891
separation1891
paedogenesis1892
parthenism1892
heterogamy1894
thelytoky1895
flagellation1898
cytogamy1899
pseudogamy1900
tychoparthenogenesis1900
syngamy1904
pseudogamy1907
ectogenesis1909
paedogamy1910
apomixis1913
progenesis1934
agamospermy1939
mixis1944
somatogamy1949
decapitation-
1898 Jrnl. Exper. Med. 3 94 The process of flagellation presented by the elongate organism is remarkable.
1926 C. M. Wenyon Protozool. II. ii. 881 In the typical coccidia the male gametocyte produces male gametes after a relatively slow process of nuclear multiplication, while in the hæmosporidia the male gametes are formed by a violent process known as flagellation or exflagellation, which occurs in the stomach of the invertebrate.
Draft additions 1993
c. spec. Beating with whips, etc. to derive sexual gratification. Cf. fladge n.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [noun] > sadism or masochism > involving beating with whips, etc.
flagellation1891
fladge1958
B and D1971
1870 ‘W. M. Cooper’ Flagellation & Flagellants xlix. 516 The history of flagellation would be incomplete without some notice of the practice of whipping inflicted or received by persons of both sexes as a pleasurable sensation.]
1891 Med. & Surg. Reporter 15 Aug. 242/2 The Sexual Perversions..are classed as 1. Masturbation, sexual murder and anthropophagy. 2. Flaggellation [sic][etc].
1928 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 68 28 (heading) Sadism and Masochism: with a discussion on esoteric flagellation.
1959 E. Wilson Fifties (1986) 604 He suddenly began telling us he was no good at flagellation: ‘When they say, “Stop, stop!” I always stop, when what they really want is to have you go on.’
1987 Observer 27 Sept. 26/7 Tynan's penchant for cross-dressing and the milder forms of flagellation did not cramp his prose style.
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