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bastinado

[ bas-tuh-ney-doh, -nah-doh ]

noun

plural bastinadoes.
  1. a mode of punishment consisting of blows with a stick on the soles of the feet or on the buttocks.
  2. a blow or a beating with a stick, cudgel, etc.
  3. a stick or cudgel.


verb (used with object)

bastinadoed, bastinadoing.
  1. to beat with a stick, cane, etc., especially on the soles of the feet or on the buttocks.

bastinado

/ ËŒ²úæ²õ³Ùɪˈ²Ô±ðɪ»åəʊ /

noun

  1. punishment or torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick
  2. a blow or beating with a stick
  3. a stick; cudgel
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to beat (a person) on the soles of the feet
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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  • ³Ü²Ôb²¹²õ·³Ù¾±Â·²Ô²¹î€ƒd´Ç±ð»å adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of bastinado1

1570–80; earlier bastanado < Spanish bastonada ( ²ú²¹²õ³Ùó²Ô stick ( baton ) + -ada -ade 1 )
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of bastinado1

C16: from Spanish bastonada , from baston stick, from Late Latin bastum see baton
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In every Arab village the sheik was a petty tyrant, who could bastinado the miserable fellahs at his will.

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For most offences the bastinado is inflicted, but for heinous crimes capital punishments are enforced.

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They took me before the Cadi, who ordered me to receive one hundred bastinadoes, and sent me to the galleys.

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The bastinado is also most extensively used as a punishment.

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The Roman censors could expel a Senator for being drunk and take away his horse; Mahomet ordered drunkards to be bastinadoed with eighty blows.

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