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Flagellum   /flədʒˈɛləm/   Listen
Flagellum

noun
(pl. E. flagellums, L. flagella)
1.
A whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor).  Synonym: scourge.
2.
A lash-like appendage used for locomotion (e.g., in sperm cells and some bacteria and protozoa).



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"Flagellum" Quotes from Famous Books



... cultellum figere in igne, vel etiam quocunque modo tangere cum cultello: vel cum cultello extrahere carnes de caldario: iuxta ignem etiam incidere cum securi. Credunt etiam quod sic auferri caput debeat igni. Item appodiare se ad flagellum, cum quo percutitur equus: Ipsi enim calcaribus non vtuntur. Item tangere flagellis sagittas. Item iuuenes aues occidere, vel accipere: cum froeno equum percutere, Item os cum osse alio frangere. Item lac vel aliquem potum vel cibum super terram effundere. In ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries - Vol. II • Richard Hakluyt
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... who succeeded Pole at Canterbury, and had therefore the best opportunity of knowing what his conduct had really been, called him Carnifex et flagellum Ecclesae Anglicanae, the hangman and the scourge of the Church of England. His character was irreproachable; in all the virtues of the Catholic Church he walked without spot or stain; and the system ...
— The Reign of Mary Tudor • James Anthony Froude
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... Taylor, "the Water Poet," are among the best known, and if not of great poetical merit, they show considerable descriptive skill, and enable us to realise the fashions of his day. In his "Superbiae Flagellum," he describes a great variety of beards in his time, but omitted his own, which is that of ...
— At the Sign of the Barber's Pole - Studies In Hirsute History • William Andrews
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