Obs. [ad. L. flagellum dim. of flagrum scourge.] A scourge.

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c. 1430.  Lydg., Bochas, I. (1544), 15 a.

        Their olde offences to punishe & to purge,
As a flagell many sondry wyse.
    Ibid. (c. 1430), Min. Poems (Percy Soc.), 146
Thu must of rihte yeve hym is penaunce,
  With this flagelle of equité and resoun.

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