单词 | strappado |
释义 | strappadon. Obsolete exc. Historical. 1. a. A form of punishment or of torture to extort confession in which the victim's hands were tied across his back and secured to a pulley; he was then hoisted from the ground and let down half way with a jerk; also an application of this punishment or torture; also the instrument used. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > [noun] > by strappado strappado1560 estrapade1856 1560 J. Frampton in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1709) I. xx. 232 And forthwith I was plucked up again; and after a while let down again. And being put down well near dead..of this Torment of the Stappado [sic], they asked me [etc.]. 1568 V. Skinner tr. R. González de Montes Discouery Inquisition of Spayne f. 24 v They..bid the hangman to slip the ropes suddenly, that he may fall downe with a sway, and in the halfe way to stop and geue him the Strippado: which being done with a trice, al his whole body is out of frame. 1583 R. Greene Mamillia i. f. 22v Or the superstitious Essenians..had had Licurgus for their iudge, they had in mine opinion purchased the strapado for their paines. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. x. 44 b The one..hadde presently three stroppados at the yardes arme of the gally. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 241 And I were at the strappado, or all the rackes in the worlde, I would not tell you on compulsion. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes One saies of Petrarche for all: A thousand strappadas coulde not compell him to confesse, what some interpreters will make him saie he ment. 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 254 And a pockes pistol found about you..is enough to make you be sent to the Gallyes with tre tratti di corda, that is, the strappada thrice. 1725 London Gaz. No. 6343/1 Turin... A few Days ago an Advocate underwent the Punishment of the Strapade. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! vii I have had too much of the rack already, and the strappado too, to care much what man can do unto me. 1887 H. C. Lea Hist. Inquisition Middle Ages I. ix. 400 In some witch trials of 1474 in Piedmont the oath to tell the truth was enforced with excommunication and ‘tratti di corde’, or infliction of the torture known as the strappado. ΚΠ 1622 F. Markham Five Decades Epist. of Warre iii. vii. 106 [The Provost Marshal] is..to see all places of Execution..furnished with..Gallowes, Gybbets, Scaffolds, Pillories, Stocks or Strappadoes. 1683 J. Turner Pallas Armata xxvii. 348 Military Punishments, which reach not to Death, are the Strappado, hanging up by the Thumbs, [etc.]. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 310/2 There are several other Punishments used by Military Officers for the Chastising of Offending Soldiers, as..the half Strappado, the whole Strappado... The Half Strappado, is to have the Mans hands tyed cross behind his Back, and so by them be drawn up to a considerable height, and so let down again... The Whole Strappado, is when the person is drawn up to his height, and then suddenly to let him fall half way with a jerk. ΚΠ 1594 1st Pt. Raigne Selimus H 4 Marrie that had bene the way to preferment, downe Holburne vp Tiburne: well ile keepe my best ioynt from the strappado. 1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia Prel. sig. C1v He's a Strappado, rack, and some such paine To base lewd vice. 1615 R. Brathwait (title) A Strappado for the Diuell. 1615 R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) To Rdr. Be honest still and thou art out of the swing of this strappado. 1626 J. Yates Ibis ad Cæsarem ii. 14 Truth hath alwaies given her enemies such Strappadoes, that it wresteth some words of confession from them against their will. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. iv. 109 O sad strapado of the soul, to be hoised up so high, and then cast down suddenly so low. 1691 W. Sancroft Let. 11 Nov. (1757) 23 My old pain in my right shoulder, which gives me the strappada sometimes, when I put on my doublet. 2. A beating, a flogging. [Compare strap n. 1b, strap v.1 2.] ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > beating swingingc1200 beating?c1225 chastising1303 correctionc1386 lashingc1400 scouring1426 Moses' law1482 jerking1552 whipping1566 yarking1573 feaking1600 correct1606 tawing1620 lacing1622 castigation1640 basking1642 verberation1661 strappado1668 the lash1694 flogging1758 whopping1812 quilting1822 blistering1842 whaling1852 nailing1895 1668 R. L'Estrange tr. F. de Quevedo Visions (new ed.) vii. 311 If I dye, let my Boy Robin have the Strappado, three hours a day, to be duly paid him during Life. 1704 T. Baker Act at Oxf. ii. ii. 24 [The Beadles give him a Blow on the Back with a Stick.] Dri. Sir! Blo. That Strappado, Sir, is to inform your Body, you are..putting on the more decent Habit of a Doctor. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 509. ⁋3 The Benches around are so filthy, that no one can sit down, yet the Beadles and Officers have the Impudence at Christmas to ask for their Box, though they deserve the Strapado. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. To Rdr. 8 Having a Pope-Sinon to undergo the voluntary Operations of his own Party's Satyrical Lashes and Mootly Strapades. 1769 I. Bickerstaff Padlock (new ed.) i. viii He gave me the strappado on my shoulders, and the bastinado on the soles of my feet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † strappadov. Obsolete. 1. transitive. To torture or punish with the strappado. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > [verb (transitive)] > with the strappado strappado1596 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. O3 A Gentleman,..that was no straunger to such bandyings as had past betwixt vs, was desirous to see how he lookt since my strappadoing and torturing him. 1607 T. Heywood Woman Kilde with Kindnesse sig. G Oh to redeeme my honor I would..Be rackt, strappadode, put to any torment. 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 12 They had neither bin hal'd into your Gehenna at Lambeth, nor strappado'd with an Oath Ex Officio by your bow men of the Arches. 2. To beat with a strap. (Cf. strappado n. 2.) ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > with strap or thong belt1568 leathera1630 strappado1655 stirrup1735 thong1746 strap1832 1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion vi. 14 I will beat her soundly for it with the Brims of my Hat, although she better doth deserve to be strappadoed [Fr. qui meriteroit plustost les estriuieres]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1560v.1596 |
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