2008年11月24日 星期一

Flagellant, Flagellate & Scourge






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flagellant



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[flaj-uh-luhnt, fluh-jel-uhnt]

【史】自鞭笞派教徒



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–noun 

1. a person who flagellates or scourges himself or herself for religious discipline.

2. a person who derives sexual pleasure from whipping or being whipped by another person.

3. (often initial capital letter) one of a medieval European sect of fanatics who practiced scourging in public. 



–adjective

4. flagellating

5. severely criticizing: a flagellant [attack] on the opposition party. 



scourge

–noun 

1. a whip 

or 

lash, esp. for the infliction of punishment or torture. 



2. a person or thing that applies or administers punishment or severe criticism.

3. a cause 

of 

affliction or calamity: [Disease] and [famine] are scourges of humanity.  



–verb (used with object) 

4. to whip with a scourge; lash.

5. to punish, chastise (鞭打), or criticize severely. 





t02191stadw 

The procession of flagellants chant the Dies Irae, a famous thirteenth century Latin hymn thought to be written by Thomas of Celano. Before stopping in the village they chant stanzas 1-4 and the Lacrimosa, stanza 18. These are repeated as the procession departs.





t02191stadw 

A group of flagellants [files] past, some carrying heavy crosses, others whipping themselves, doing penance. The knight and squire encounter a girl (Gunnel Lindblom), held in a cage, who is going to be burned at the stake; her captors explain that she slept with the devil, drawing [down] the plague.









thresh

thrash 

He got his comeuppance when the bully [thrashed] him.

drub

Valkyrie has taken a [drubbing] on the PR front, mostly because of people's [poisonous] initial reactions to Tom Cruise as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.

Latin grammar was drubbed into their [heads].

flail

The film finishes by exploring hetero motifs: Encolpio discovers that he is impotent while [flailing] around on the alter of the whore-priestess, 

and then recovers his [virility] while pleasuring Oneothea, a corpulent [sorceress] sex therapist.

Convulsion



limo bimbo nether Stygian 

limbo 

the project fell into [limbo] and later found [light] as an HBO television series helmed by Mark Steven Johnson.

excruciate 

expiate 

penance Purgatory

Dissipate


















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