plagose

From Latin plagosus. See plague.

plagose (comparative more plagose, superlative most plagose)

1. (dated or rare) Fond of flogging.
   • 1868, Mortimer Collins, Sweet Anne Page, page 23:

     Now Mary Langton was the only one her grandfather ever petted; whence Miss Harriet's plagose propensity.

   • 1969, Robert Lynd, The peal of bells, page 131:

     Other boys from other schools used to relate their experiences with plagose headmasters and describe how, by laying a hair from a horse's tail across your palm, you could outwit or at least diminish the sting of the cane.

• “plagose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

plāgōse

1. vocative masculine singular of plāgōsus