flagellator
(ˈflædʒəleɪtə(r))
[agent-n. f. L. flagellāre to flagellate.]
One who scourges or flogs. (In quot. 1691 = flagellant A 1.)
| 1691 ‘G. D'Emilianne’ Frauds Rom. Monks 358 In the midst of these Flagellators was carried a Representation of the Scourging of our Saviour. 1824 Examiner 103/2 He was the flagellator of the boy Lynch. 1876 Grant Burgh Sch. Scotl. ii. v. 198 The flagellator having been summoned before the Council, declares that the fault was not his. |
| fig. 1830 G. Croly George IV, vi. 76 The rise of this grand flagellator [the newspaper press]. |