Also 5 flagellacyon, 6 -cion. [ad. L. flagellātion-em, n. of action f. flagellāre to FLAGELLATE.] The action of scourging; a flogging, whipping.
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 13. Suffrynge … intollerable turmentes, flagellacyons, and moost cruell and bytter deth.
1664. H. More, Myst. Iniq., 466. Excoriating their bodies by barbarous and Pagan-like processionary Flagellations.
1765. Sterne, Tr. Shandy, VIII. xxxi. Hilarion the hermit, who, in speaking of his abstinence, his watchings, flagellations, and other instrumental parts of his religion, would say, though with more facetiousness than became a hermit, ‘that they were the means he used to make his ass (meaning his body) leave off kicking.’
1838. Dickens, Nich. Nick., xiii. A fearful instrument of flagellation, strong, supple, wax-ended, and new.
1875. H. C. Wood, Therap. (1879), 161. Mild flagellations, rubbing with coarse towels, sinapisms, etc., may be used to keep up the external capillary circulation.
fig. 1490. Caxton, Eneydos, xx. 73. My spyrite shall aproche the nyghe in all the places of thy flagellacyons, peynes & tormentes.
1502. Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W., 1506), IV. v. 175. Somtyme by sykenesses, losses of goodes, warres, and other flagellacyons.
b. spec. The scourging of Christ; a picture representing this.
1426. Audelay, Poems, 55.
| Vij. blodes Crist he bled, | |
| The fyrst in his circumsycyon, | |
| The secund in holé oresown, | |
| The deth when that he dred; | |
| The thred in his flagellacion, | |
| The fourth in his coronacion. |
1630. Donne, Deaths Duell (1632), 32ú3. Hee wept pure blood, all his blood at all his eyes, at all his pores, in his flagellation and thornes.
1703. Maundrell, Journ. Jerus. (1732), 72. The first place they visited was that of the Pillar of Flagellation, a large piece of which is kept in a little Cell just at the door of the Chappel of the Apparition.
1741. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Flagellation.… We say … a Flagellation, to denote a Painting, or Print, representing this Torment inflicted on the Saviour of the World.
