flagellation (flajelashon)

[F. flagel lati on = Sp. flagelacion = Pg. flagellação = It. flag ell azione, This labour past, by Bridewell all descend (As morning prayer and flagellation end). Pope, Dunciad, ii. 270. History makes us acquainted with many curious instances in the heathen world where the images of the Deities worshipped have been very roughly treated, and even suffered public flagellation, for not having averted the calamities which had been deprecated. T. Cogan, On the Pa ions, I. i. § 3. flagellator (flaj'e-lā-tor), n . [= F. flag ell at eur = Pg. flagella dor = It. flagella tore , fla gellator , one who whips, one of the flagellants, flag ell are , whip: see flagella tel , v .] One who whips or scourges. flagellet, n. [ME., Thu must of rihte yeve him is penaunce With this flagelle of equite and resoun. Lydgate, Minor Poems, p. 146.