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prettygoodwordfustigate (FUHS-ti-gait) - v., to beat with a cudgel; to harshly criticize.
Never common, now both high and humorous register. Adopted in the literal sense around 1650 from the present participle of Latin fūstigāre, from fūstis, club + agere, to do. The metaphoric extension first appeared in 1896, describing the "fustigation of dummy opponents" as part of Matthew Arnold’s style, heh.
---L.
Never common, now both high and humorous register. Adopted in the literal sense around 1650 from the present participle of Latin fūstigāre, from fūstis, club + agere, to do. The metaphoric extension first appeared in 1896, describing the "fustigation of dummy opponents" as part of Matthew Arnold’s style, heh.
---L.
