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Scourge - Definition

Related Words: Affliction, Bane, Bastinado, Beat, Belt, Birch, Blacksnake, Blister, Buffet, Bugbear, Bullwhip, Burden, Calamity, Cane, Cat

A scourge (from the Italian scoriada, ultimately from the Latin excoriare [to flay] and corium [skin]), comprises a whip or lash, especially one used for the infliction of punishment. The typical scourge (in Latin: flagellum or flagrum) has several thongs or lashes attached to a single handle, as in the "cat-o'-nine-tails". The scourge or flail, and the crook, are the two symbols of power and domination depicted in the hands of Osiris in ancient Egyptian monuments; these show the unchanging form of the instrument throughout the ages.

Adapted from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica

Example Usage of Scourge

sin_cadenas: http://goo.gl/7HqX only in movies? solo en peliculas? stop this Scourge of trafficking in persons
sin_cadenas: http://goo.gl/N11M stop this Scourge of trafficking in persons
algaebiofuels: 船を食べちゃうキクイムシが世界の希望に(Seafarers’ Scourge provides hope for biofuel future) http://cli.gs/ESAEM: 船を食べちゃうキクイムシが世界の希望に... http://bit.ly/b0rc2B
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