a. [f. L. baculum, -us rod, stick + -INE.] Of or pertaining to the rod, or to punishment by caning or flogging.
1710. Hume, Sacr. Success. (1716), 227. This baculine objection being fairly encounter’d.
1858. Thackeray, Virginians, I. v. 38. The baculine method was a common mode of argument.
