What is "scourged"

Usage examples of "scourged".

So, she scourged forth the maniac multitude To rear this pyramid--tottering and slow, Plague-stricken, foodless, like lean herds pursued By gadflies, they have piled the heath, and gums, and wood.

Doubt when they favor thee, though thou mayest laugh When they have scourged thee with an iron scourge.

In Your name I have scourged vice and sin from the land, and in Your name are the mighty and the worldly cast down.

Last night she opened her habit and scourged herself unmercifully and in a way that I cannot in modesty describe.

The unhappy youth, who might have excited the compassion of the most savage enemy, was scourged, tortured, and publicly executed by the inhuman Romans.

The mode of execution was painful and ignominious: the head of the degenerate Roman was shrouded in a veil, his hands were tied behind his back, and after he had been scourged by the lictor, he was suspended in the midst of the forum on a cross, or inauspicious tree.

In person, the emperor assisted at the execution of his victims, surveyed their agonies, listened to their groans, and indulged, without satiating, his appetite for blood: a plate of noses was accepted as a grateful offering, and his domestics were often scourged or mutilated by the royal hand.

I have unjustly scourged, I submit my own back to the lash of retaliation.

Decayed bone showed where her flesh had been scourged away, and her dress was so tattered it would have been indecent on any other female.

They sink upon their nature, the unnamed, And sops of nourishment may get some few, In place of understanding, scourged and shamed.

Not till her breath of being could aspire Anew, this loved and scourged of Angels found Our common brotherhood in sight and sound: When mellow rang the name Napoleon, And dim aloft her young Angelical waved.