Crossword clues for scourge
scourge
- Plague
- ___ of God (epithet for Attila the Hun)
- A whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor)
- Something causes misery or death
- A person who inspires fear or dread
- Whip
- Curse when senior officer's overcome by sudden rush
- Succeeded with valour to banish a destructive force
- Small firm with drive is a great menace
- Small bottle gets rid of a torment
- Punish severely
- Cause of ruin
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scourge \Scourge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scourged; p. pr. & vb. n. Scourging.] [From Scourge, n.: cf. OF. escorgier.]
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To whip severely; to lash.
Is it lawful for you to scourge a . . . Roman?
--Acts xxii. 25. -
To punish with severity; to chastise; to afflict, as for sins or faults, and with the purpose of correction.
Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
--Heb. xii. 6. -
To harass or afflict severely.
To scourge and impoverish the people.
--Brougham.
Scourge \Scourge\, n. [F. escourg['e]e, fr. L. excoriata (sc. scutica) a stripped off (lash or whip), fr. excoriare to strip, to skin. See Excoriate.]
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A lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or discipline; a whip.
Up to coach then goes The observed maid, takes both the scourge and reins.
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Hence, a means of inflicting punishment, vengeance, or suffering; an infliction of affliction; a punishment.
Sharp scourges of adversity.
--Chaucer.What scourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, "a whip, lash," from Anglo-French escorge, back-formation from Old French escorgier "to whip," from Vulgar Latin *excorrigiare, from Latin ex- "out, off" (see ex-) + corrigia "thong, shoelace," in this case "whip," probably from a Gaulish word related to Old Irish cuimrech "fetter," from PIE root *reig- "to bind" (see rig (v.)). Figurative use from late 14c. Scourge of God, title given by later generations to Attila the Hun (406-453 C.E.), is attested from late 14c., from Latin flagellum Dei.
c.1300, "to whip," from Old French escorgier and from scourge (n.). Figurative meaning "to afflict" (often for the sake of punishment or purification) is from late 14c. Related: Scourged; scourging.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) A source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction. 2 A means to inflict such pain or destruction. vb. To strike with a ''scourge'', to flog.
WordNet
v. punish severely; excoriate
whip; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves" [syn: flagellate]
devastate or ravage; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion" [syn: lay waste to, waste, devastate, desolate, ravage]
Wikipedia
A scourge is a whip or lash, especially a multi-thong type, used to inflict severe corporal punishment or self-mortification on the back.
Scourge, in comics, may refer to:
- Scourge of the Underworld, an organization responsible for the deaths of numerous supervillains
- Scourge, a member of the Thunderbolts during Dark Reign, who is revealed to be Nuke (Marvel Comics)
Scourge is the name of several fictional characters from the Transformers series. He first appeared as one of the central villains in the 1986 film The Transformers voiced by Stan Jones. He also regularly appeared in the animated Transformers series and Transformers comic books; since then other Transformers characters have used the name "Scourge". In 2009 a Scourge action figure was one of the exclusive available at Botcon, the annual Transformers convention.
Scourge is the fourth studio album by British thrash metal band Xentrix. It was released sometime during 1996 through Heavy Metal Records. It is the only album to feature vocalist Simon Gordon and guitarist Andy Rudd.
A scourge is a whip or flail.
Scourge may also refer to:
- Scourge (Magic: The Gathering), an expansion set to Magic: The Gathering
- USS Scourge (1812), an American schooner converted to a warship; sank during the War of 1812
- "The Scourge" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of Stargate SG-1
- Scourge (Transformers), one of four fictional characters in the Transformers series
- Scourge of the Underworld a villain in Marvel Comics
- Scourge, a trade name for a product that contains resmethrin
- Scourge, an era in the fictional world of Earthdawn
- Scourge, a cat character in the Warriors novel series
- The Scourge, a fictional group introduced in "Hero", an episode of Angel
- Scourge, a 2007 play by Marc Bamuthi Joseph
- Scourge: Outbreak, third-person shooter video game.
- The Scourge (film), a 1922 British silent film
Usage examples of "scourge".
Accordingly he had, from time to time, accommodated him with small trifles, which barely served to support his existence, and even for these had taken notes of hand, that he might have a scourge over his head, in case he should prove insolent or refractory.
Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and torturing hour The bad affright, afflict the best!
The cruel treatment of the insolvent debtors of the state, is attested, and was perhaps mitigated by a very humane edict of Constantine, who, disclaiming the use of racks and of scourges, allots a spacious and airy prison for the place of their confinement.
Foma felt their daring audacity, their biting sarcasm, their passionate malice, and he was as well pleased with them as though he had been scourged with besoms in a hot bath.
That fifty years hence, these scourges of humanity will be curable by the administration of any remedy, to be hereafter discovered by experimentation on animals,--in the Rockefeller Institute, for instance,--I have not the slightest faith.
With germs invisible to the naked eye, grown in a flask, will some future experimenter be able to produce in a human being all the terrible symptoms of this worst scourge of the human race?
He seemed not much more than a boy, for there was no gift or scourge of mage-power in him, and he had never been anywhere but Iffish, Tok, and Holp, and his life was easy and untroubled.
A youth of consular rank, and a sickly constitution, was punished, without a trial, like a malefactor and a slave: yet such was the constancy of his mind, that Photius sustained the tortures of the scourge and the rack, without violating the faith which he had sworn to Belisarius.
The masochistic desire to be exploited that passes as the collective desire of his audience seems almost as perverse as the Puritan desire to be scourged by God.
These words chafed him more then the burning oile, or flaming brimstone, or scourge of whipps, saying : that they should be hanged and their law too, before he would be subject unto any person : and therewithall he called out his bandogges and great masties, which accustomed to eate the carrion and carkases of dead beasts in the fields, and to set upon such as passed by the way: then he commanded they should be put upon all the assistance to teare them in peeces : who as soone as they heard the hisse of their master, ran fiercely upon them invading them on every side, insomuch that the more they flied to escape away, the more cruell and terrible were the dogges.
States had been troubled by divers ill-intentioned persons pretending to have received revelations from another World, and professing to produce demonstrations whereby they had instigated to frenzy both themselves and others, it had been for this cause unanimously resolved by the Grand Council that on the first day of each millenary, special injunctions be sent to the Prefects in the several districts of Flatland, to make strict search for such misguided persons, and without formality of mathematical examination, to destroy all such as were Isosceles of any degree, to scourge and imprison any regular Triangle, to cause any Square or Pentagon to be sent to the district Asylum, and to arrest any one of higher rank, sending him straightway to the Capital to be examined and judged by the Council.
But he took it mighty ill, being stubborn set to carry out his predetermined purpose, which was to follow up this victory of Crossby Outsikes by so many cruel murthers, rapes, and burnings, up and down the country side in Upper and Lower Tivarandardale and down by Onwardlithe and the southern seaboard, as should show those vermin he was their master whom they did require, and the scourge in your hand, O King, that must scourge them to the bare bone.
The sorry truth scourged him, that his last mustered strength seemed insufficient to drag himself back to his feet.
Louis scourged to exile the remnant of wastrels and gallants that had demoralized his court and settled down to a monastic quiet in which the trivium and the quadrivium resumed their proper ascendancy over romance and gasconnade.
Doubt when they favor thee, though thou mayest laugh When they have scourged thee with an iron scourge.