0 past simple and past participle of scourge
2 to beat someone with a whip (= a piece of leather or rope fastened to a stick) as a punishment:
Much of the courtyard pavement survives in the Monastery of the Flagellation, where Jesus Christ was scourged.
The king was filled with guilt for his murder and in 1174 came to Canterbury to be scourged at Becket's tomb by the 80 monks of the Cathedral's Abbey.
At that time the insane were frequently tortured and scourged.
When alone, he would pray still more. He would scourge himself, keep midnight vigils, wear the rough hair shirt.
I hope and believe that it has completely scourged any complacency about health and safety at work.
The encyclopedia describes this as the name given to those who scourge themselves or are scourged by way of discipline or penance.
I should like to see the number of men they have scourged to come down— the number of men who have got what is called stiff pairs.
The region is being scourged for months by the sorcerers, even if the precedent year eleven people were burned alive in a sorcery trial.
