0 present 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 am convinced that if this were done we could reform the rating system without scourging local government or local government democracy.
That was the scourging and spitting process.
The roof of the car is ripped off by a roadblock and the girls crash into a subway to escape the scourging sunlight.
Then, they are taken to the scourging room.
