v. rare. [ad. L. vāpulāt-, ppl. stem of vāpulāre to be beaten. Cf. obs. F. vapuler, Sp. and Pg. vapular.]
1. trans. To beat or strike.
1603. Dekker & Chettle, Grissill, 1315. I … with my ponyard vapulating and checking his engine, downe it cut mee a payre of very imperiall cloth of golde hose.
1623. Cockeram, I. Vapulate, to beat, to strike.
b. absol. To administer a flogging.
1818. J. Brown, Psyche, 198. If they vapulate in vain.
2. intr. To suffer vapulation or flogging.
1783. Parr, Lett., Wks. 1828, VII. 390. Blunders for which a boy ought to vapulate.
