Definition of "fustigation" []

• A beating with a club (noun)
• A harsh verbal assault (noun)

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• "And she bade them bash me; so they beat me on my ribs and the marks ye saw are the scars of that fustigation."
• "The negroes, particularly those at whose fustigation I had assisted in the morning, joined in the scoffs of their masters, calling me"
• "I recognized him as one whose fustigation had so revived my crapulous spirits in the morning."