[ad. L. fūstīgātiōn-em, n. of action f. fūstīgāre to FUSTIGATE. Cf. F. fustigation.] The action of cudgeling or beating.
1563–87. Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 609/2. This penance … to be done … that is to say, six fustigations or displings about the parish church of Aldborough.
1614. Selden, Titles of Honor, 64. That punishment of Fustigation was it seems, instituted by Antoninus and Commodus.
1667. Earl of Bristol, Elvira, II., in Hazl., Dodsley, XV. 32. Heaven send him a light hand To whom my fustigation shall belong.
1715. trans. C’tess D’Aunoy’s Wks., 205. Don Pedro cry’d so loud at that fustigation.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. IV. i. Martyrdom not of massacre, yet of fustigation.
1860. J. C. Jeaffreson, Bk. about Doctors, I. 7. For many centuries fustigation was believed in as a sovereign remedy for bodily ailments.
fig. 1858. Motley, Corr. (1889), I. 249. Lord Clarendon in the Lords administered a most serious fustigation.
