Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who scourges or punishes; specifically, a flagellant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who scourges or punishes; one who afflicts severely.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who, or that which,
scourges .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a torturer who flogs or scourges (especially an official whose duty is to whip offenders)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Filed under: Firoze Shakir Bollywoods Most Wanted , kurla juloos 2008, polio afflicted scourger, zanzir matam
2008 February 19 « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008
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The Shia cemetery surroundings are very crowded on Chehlum, and everythinh happens in the narrow passages that lead to the graves , every mound is occupied, and the veterans here dont give the novice a chance to scourge, this is their territory for the first half hour, and once the crowd receedes one could step out and shoot..but this is one tough assignment of faith..for the scourger and the photographer too..
2008 February 10 « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008
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Filed under: Firoze Shakir Bollywoods Most Wanted , kurla juloos 2008, polio afflicted scourger, zanzir matam
Polio Afflicted Scourger « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008
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One of the most famous Shia matamdar in Mumbai is Ali Shah, he is a scourger and a kama matam exponent , his back has no place for further scourging, but he scourges year after year.
2008 February 01 « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008
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One of the most famous Shia matamdar in Mumbai is Ali Shah, he is a scourger and a kama matam exponent , his back has no place for further scourging, but he scourges year after year.
The Shias of Mumbai « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008
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The Shia cemetery surroundings are very crowded on Chehlum, and everythinh happens in the narrow passages that lead to the graves , every mound is occupied, and the veterans here dont give the novice a chance to scourge, this is their territory for the first half hour, and once the crowd receedes one could step out and shoot..but this is one tough assignment of faith..for the scourger and the photographer too..
Kama Matam by Kids « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008
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“Give him a hundred!” roared the commandant, and observing that the officiating flogger only pulled off his frock, he ordered him also to doff his shirt and stationed another scourger behind the man who was about to punish the delinquent, with orders, if the first did not do his duty, that he was to flog him.
Ralph Rashleigh 2004
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And even while they held it, in this place, they were looked upon with distrust by their superiors, a constable always standing behind the back of the operating scourger with a stout stick, with which he scrupled not to strike the striker when his blows did not fall heavily enough upon the back of the culprit who was undergoing punishment.
Ralph Rashleigh 2004
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If the scourger won't do his duty, tie him up, and give him five – and – twenty for himself.
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"To Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin; to the Judgment Hall of Pilate; to the scourger and the cross if they have power."
The Coming of the King Bernie Babcock
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