flagellist

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who administers punishment by whipping.
    — Keats, of the noted Eton school, was perhaps the best flagellist of this century, and it is said of him in Cooper's History of the Rod, that on one occasion, when a confirmation was to be held for the school, each master was requested to make out a list of candidates from his own form.
  2. One who whips him or herself as an act of religious penitence; flagellant.
    — The Christian flagellist might, it is probable, draw as much blood from his back in a year, as did the frantic priest of Moloch from his sides and arms ; or perhaps more ; but yet it were better done with the Scourge than with the Knife.
  3. One who whips others or is whipped by others as a sexual fetish.
    — Then comes the next and the next until the sadist, the flagellist, the criminally insane demand their places, and society ceases to exist.
  4. One who is abusive or punishing.
    — No reasonable man dare gainsay that it is not the function of government to constitute itself as a flagellist for either side of the industrial problem.

词形变化

flagellists plural

词源

From Latin flagellum (“whip”) + -ist.
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