Thesaurus of English words and phrases : classified and arranged so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition / by Peter Mark Roget ; enlarged and improved, partly from the author's notes, and with a full index, by John Lewis Roget.

Peter Mark Roget

Date:: 1894

Credit: Thesaurus of English words and phrases : classified and arranged so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition / by Peter Mark Roget ; enlarged and improved, partly from the author's notes, and with a full index, by John Lewis Roget. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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$the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, baste, belabour; lace, - one's jacket; dress, give a dressing, trim warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, whallop' whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip,^ bastinado, towel, rub dowu with an oaken towe^ rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a -mummy, - jelly ; give a black eye. tar and feather ; pelt, stone, lapidate; mast-head, keelhaul. execute ; bring to the -block, - gallows ; behead ; de-capitate, -col- late ; guillotine; hang, turn oft', gibbet, bowstring, hang draw and C[uarter ; shoot; decimate ; burn ; break on the wheel, crucify ; em-, im-pale ; flay; lynch. torture ; put -on, - to- the rack ; picket. banish, exile, transport, expel, ostracize ; rusticate; drum out; dis- miss, -bar, -bench; strike off the roll, unfrock ; post. suffer, - for, - punishment; be -flogged, - hanged, &c.; come to the gallows, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes ; be rightly served. Adj. punishing &c. v.; penal; puni-tory, -tive; inflictive, castiga- tory ; punished &c. v. Int. a la lanterne I 973. Reward.—W. reward, re- compense, remuneration, meed, guerdon, reguerdon ; indemni-tj^, -fication; quit- tance ; compensation; reparation, re- dress ; retribution, reckoning, acknow- ledgment, requital, amends, sop ; atone- ment; consideration, return, quid pi-o quo; salvage, perquisite; vail &c. {do- nation) 784; douceur, bribe; hush-, smart-money; blaclrmail; carcelage; solatium. allowance, salary, stipend, wages; pay, -ment; emolument; tribute; batta, shot, scot; premium, fee, honorarium; hire. crown &c. {decoration of honour') 877. V. re-ward, -compense, -pay, -quite ; re-, munerate ; compensate; fee ; pay one's footing &c. (^pay) 807; make amends, indemnify, atone ; satisfy, ac- knowledge. get for one's pains, reap the fruits of. Adj. remimerat-ive,-ory ; mimerary, compensatory, retributive, reparatory. 974:. Penalty.—W. penalty; re- tribution &c. { jmnishment) 972 ; pain, pains and penalties ; peine forte etdure ; penance &c. {atonement) 952 ; the devil to pay. fine, mulct, amercement; forfeit, -ure; escheat, damages, deodand, sequestra- tion, confiscation, premunire. V. fine, mulct, amerce, sconce, con- fiscate ; sequest-rate, -er; escheat; es- treat, forfeit. 975. [Instrument of punishment.] Scourg'e. — wr. scourge, rod, cane, stick; ra-, rat-tan; birch,-rod; rod in pickle; switch, ferule, cudgel,truncheon. whip, lash, strap, thong, cowhide, knout; cat, - o'-nine-tails; rope's end. pillory, stocks, whipping-post; cuck-, duck-ing stool; brank ; triangle, wooden horse, maiden, thumbscrew, boot, rack, wheel, iron heel; treadmill, crank, gallej's. scaffold ; block, axe, guillotine ; stake; cross ; gallows, gibbet, tree, drop, noose, rope, halter, bowsti-ing. house of correction &c. (prison) 752. gaol-, jail-er; executioner; hang-, beads-man; Jack Ketch.$