scourge

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails; a lash.

   “He flogged him with a scourge.”

2. isim A person or thing regarded as an agent of divine punishment.

   “And therfore the faithfull had neede of inuincible conſtancie and incredible pacience, that they may know them to be gods squorges, and the inſtrumentes of his wrath, […]”

3. isim A source of persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble, such as a cruel ruler, disease, pestilence, or war.

   “Graffiti is the scourge of building owners everywhere.”

4. fiil To strike (a person, an animal, etc.) with a scourge (noun etymology 1 sense 1) or whip; to flog, to whip.

   “Doe vve not vpon every good-friday, in ſundrie places, ſee a great number of men and vvomen, ſcourge and beate themſelves ſo long till they bruſe and teare their fleſh, even to the bones? I have often ſeene it my ſelfe, and that vvithout enchantment.”

5. fiil To drive, or force (a person, an animal, etc.) to move, with or as if with a scourge or whip.

   “So judge thou ſtill, preſumptuous, till the wrauth, / Which thou incurr'ſt by flying, meet thy flight / Seavenfold, and ſcourge that wiſdom back to Hell, / Which taught thee yet no better, that no pain / Can equal anger infinite provok't.”

6. fiil To punish (a person, an animal, etc.); to chastise.

   “For a Patient and Thankful Heart in Sickness. Whom thou lovest, O Lord, him dost thou chasten, yea, every son that thou receivest, thou scourgest, and in so doing thou offerest thyself unto him, as a father unto his son. For what son is whom the father chasteneth not?”

7. fiil To cause (someone or something) persistent (and often widespread) pain and suffering or trouble; to afflict, to torment.

   “And that the Remonſtrant cannot vvaſh his hands of all the cruelties exercis'd by the Prelats, is paſt doubting. They ſcourg'd the Confeſſors of the Goſpel, and he held the Scourgers garments.”

8. fiil Of a crop or a farmer: to deplete the fertility of (land or soil).