rare. [ad. L. *vāpulātio, n. of action f. vāpulāre: see prec. Cf. Sp. vapulacion.] A beating or flogging. Also transf.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Vapulation, a beating or scourging.
1706. E. Ward, London Spy, II. Wks. (ed. 3), I. 33. Like an Offender at a Whipping-Post,… the more importunate he seems for their favourable usage, the severer Vapulation they are to exercise upon him.
1791. Hampson, Mem. J. Wesley, III. 5. A strapping colonel interposing, the vapulation did not take place.
