flagellist noun4 •One who administers punishment by whipping.They hold the head of the defendant, he nowise resisting, upon the ground, and bare his thighs, while the falgellist administers the twenty strokes with a flat bamboo cricket-bat. — 1897 •One who whips him or herself as an act of religious penitence; flagellant. •One who whips others or is whipped by others as a sexual fetish.Then comes the next and the next until the sadist, the flagellist, the criminally insane demand their places, and society ceases to exist. — 1950 •One who is abusive or punishing.No reasonable man dare gainsay that it is not the function of government to constitute itself as a flagellist for either side of the industrial problem. — 1961 formsflagellists
