a. rare–1. [f. L. vāpulāt VAPULATE v. + -ORY.] Of or relating to flogging.
1875. Dundee Courier & Argus, 17 May, 3/6. She … has probably thanked Dr. Goodford devoutly many times for the vapulatory check he administered to the passion of her girlhood’s admirer.
1886. Lowell, Wks. (1890), VI. 163. I am not … arguing in favour of a return to these vapulatory methods.
