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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: strike with a cudgel [syn: cudgel, fustigate]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-gated; -gating) Etymology: Late Latin fustigatus, past participle of fustigare, from Latin fustis + -igare (as in fumigare to fumigate) Date: circa 1661 1. cudgel 2. to criticize severely • fustigation noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fustigate Fus"ti*gate, v. t. [L. fustigare, fr. fustis stick. See 1st Fust.] To cudgel. [R.] --Bailey.

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