plagose

English

Etymology

From Latin plagosus. See plague.

Adjective

plagose (comparative more plagose, superlative most plagose)

1. Fond of flogging.
   • 1868, Mortimer Collins, Sweet Anne Page, page 23:

     Now Mary Langton was the only one her grandfather ever petted; whence Miss Harriet's plagose propensity.

   • 1969, Robert Lynd, The peal of bells, page 131:

     Other boys from other schools used to relate their experiences with plagose headmasters and describe how, by laying a hair from a horse's tail across your palm, you could outwit or at least diminish the sting of the cane.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “plagose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Adjective

plāgōse

1. vocative masculine singular of plāgōsus