[agent-n. f. L. flagellāre to FLAGELLATE.] One who scourges or flogs. (In quot. 1691 = FLAGELLANT A 1.)
1691. G. D’Emiliane, Frauds Rom. Monks, 358. In the midst of these Flagellators, was carried a Representation of the Scourging of our Saviour, ty’d to a Pillar.
1824. Examiner, 103/2. He was the flagellator of the boy Lynch.
1876. J. Grant, History of the Burgh Schools of Scotland, II. v. 198. The flagellator having been summoned before the council, declares that the fault was not his.
fig. 1830. G. Croly, George IV., vi. 76. The terrors that must have naturally startled the chaplain of a duke at the rise of this grand flagellator [the newspaper press].
