v. Now humorously pedantic. [f. L. fūstīgāt- ppl. stem of fūstīgāre to cudgel to death, f. fūstis cudgel.] trans. To cudgel, beat.
165681. Blount, Glossogr., Fustigate, to beat with a staff, to cudgel.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies (1662), 136. For falling out with his Steward Rivaldus de Modena an Italian, and fustigating him for his faults, the angry Italian Poysoned him [Christopher Bambridge].
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. III. viii. (1B72), 131. These serpent-haired Extreme She Patriots do now shamefully fustigate her.
1851. R. F. Burton, Goa, 1678. We were toiling up a steep and muddy mountain-road over the Apennines, on foot, to relieve our panting steeds, whom the vetturino was fustigating, con amore, at the same time venting fearful imprecations upon the soul of Sant Antonino Piccino, or the younger.
1879. Brit. Med. Jrnl., 31 May, 813. She may now leave the business to the small patient himself, provided he be old and sensible enough to fustigate himself systematically.
fig. (absol.) 1888. The Saturday Review, LXV. 2 June 667. It is not in this section of his achievement that Daumier is to be seen and studied to the most advantage. His power is enormous; his ferocity is almost as that of Gillray; he brands, he bruises, he fustigates; he stamps his victims ridiculous, or hateful, or both, for all time.
Hence Fustigated ppl. a. Also Fustigator, one who fustigates or beats (another).
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Fustigated, beaten with a Cudgel.
1865. Pall Mall G., 8 Nov., 9. We shall hear by an early mail of the magistrate himself having been assaulted as soon as the gallant fustigator is liberated on bail.