Flagellator


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Flag´el`la`tor


n.1.One who practices flagellation; one who whips or scourges.
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Meanwhile bass player Lord Thrapston Flagellator wears a gas mask.
sound check
A MUSLIM student from Birmingham who was caught with a bladed flagellator used by Shias to ritually scourge themselves has been cleared of possessing it as an offensive weapon.
Student is cleared over flagellator
(29) Another periodical, celebrating Beckett's achievements later in life as a journalist, dramatist, lawyer and magistrate, began by saying that as a young man he had been 'a bitter satirist, the unsparing flagellator of humbug ...
Ira Aldridge at Covent Garden, April 1833

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