Flagellation

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flagellation \Flag`el*la"tion\, n. [L. flagellatio: cf. F.
     flagellation.]
     A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging. --Garth.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  flagellation
       n : beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
           [syn: {whipping}, {tanning}, {flogging}, {lashing}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "flagellation":
     Albigensianism, Catharism, Day of Atonement, Franciscanism,
     Sabbatarianism, Trappism, Waldensianism, Yoga, Yom Kippur,
     abstinence, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, asceticism,
     austerity, bastinado, basting, battery, beating, belting,
     buffeting, caning, clubbing, cold purgatorial fires,
     corporal punishment, cowhiding, cudgeling, drubbing, eremitism,
     fasting, flailing, flogging, fustigation, hair shirt,
     horsewhipping, lacing, lashing, lustration, maceration,
     mendicantism, monachism, monasticism, mortification, penance,
     penitence, penitential act, penitential exercise, pistol-whipping,
     purgation, purgatory, puritanism, rawhiding, repentance, rigor,
     sackcloth and ashes, scourging, self-denial, self-mortification,
     spanking, strapping, stripes, swingeing, switching, thrashing,
     trouncing, truncheoning, voluntary poverty, whipping