flagellation

• IPA^(key): /ˌflæd͡ʒəˈleɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

From French flagellation, from Latin flagellatio, from flagellare, from flagellum, diminutive of flagrum (“whip”).

flagellation (countable and uncountable, plural flagellations)

1. Beating, or an instance of beating, consisting of lashes, notably as corporal punishment or mortification, such as a whipping or scourging.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 42:

     As a means of restoring vigor to the generative organs, flagellation was recommended by the ancient physicians as an effectual remedy, in accordance with the Hippocratic principle of ubi stimulus, ibi affluxus.

• flagellant, flagellantism
• flogging
• self-flagellation

From flagellum (“elongated filiform appendage”), itself a diminutive of Latin flagrum (“whip”), closely related to etymology 1.

flagellation (plural flagellations)

1. (botany) The formation by plants of flagella, or their arrangement

• “flagellation” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /fla.ʒɛ.la.sjɔ̃/ ~ /fla.ʒe.la.sjɔ̃/

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• Hyphenation: fla‧ge‧lla‧tion

flagellation f (plural flagellations)

1. flagellation

• “flagellation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.