fustigate

From Latin fūstīgātus, past participle of fūstīgō (“I cudgel to death”), from fūstis (“a cudgel”) + ago (“I act”).

fustigate (third-person singular simple present fustigates, present participle fustigating, simple past and past participle fustigated)

1. (transitive) To hit someone with a club.
2. (figuratively) To harshly criticize someone.

• (hit someone with a club): flay, thrash, birch
• (harshly criticize someone): castigate, denounce, flay

• fustigation
• fustigator

• “fustigate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “fustigate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “fustigate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

fustigate

1. inflection of fustigare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

fustigate f pl

1. feminine plural of fustigato

fūstīgāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of fūstīgō

fustigate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of fustigar combined with te