10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VAPULATION»
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vapulation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
vapulation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Superior Person's Book of Words
VAPULATION tv n. Flogging. Widespread ignorance of this word makes its use ("
By God, old boy, I believe you deserve a vapulation for that!") quite safe even
when addressing a Professor of English Language and Literature. VARLET tv n.
2
Thomas Barnes of The Times
The version was so bad that The Times of 21 March 1840 announced that it
intended to inflict a 'vapulation. .. upon Lord Brougham's literary hide for his
innumerable acts of mistranslation, interpolation and mutilation upon
Demosthenes'.
Derek Hudson, Harold Child,
2013
3
The Monthly Repertory of English Literature, ... Or an ...
importance; and the impatient reader, hastening forward to the glories of' his
hero's advanced life, is detained by an inquiry (brought, perhaps, to a not quite
logical conclusion) into the 'vapulation of his youth. We may probably incur a ...
4
The Monthly Repertory of English Literature
importance; and'the impatient reader, hastening forward _to the glories of his
hero's advanced life, is detained by an inquiry (brought, perhaps, to a not 'quite
logical conclusion) into. the vapulation of his youth. We may probably incur .a ...
5
English Etymology: Or, a Derivative Dictionary of the ...
VAPULATION, Ham-mean, anew, qaatia, concntio; to gniver, and gaake: vel
forsitan ab ArratAou, vapulo; premisso v consono, ut ab 44, 2 vix: Au-'Mu idem est
ac si simplex axe', quod er; siiritura, tera, tontnnda, etiam flagrir cede; to beat ...
George William Lemon,
1783
6
Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, System of universal knowledge
Yes," replies Lampito, " I fancy I could, for I exercise myself in jumping till rov
heels touch my back." Doubtless, such personal vigour was not rare in Laconia ;
the chastisement, then, of an annual vapulation, received from such hands, and ...
7
A dictionary of the Spanish and English languages, orig. ...
... exhalable. Vaporacion, tf. Evaporation, vaporation, the act of flying away in
fumes or vapours. Vaporir, Vaporear, Vaporiiir, va. V. Evaporar. Vaporoso, sa, a.
Vaporous, fumy, vaporish. Vapulacion, (Coll.) tf. Whipping, flogging, vapulation ...
Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Marc' Antonio Baretti, Mateo Seoane Sobral,
1862
8
A Review of Lord Brougham's Translation of the Oration of ...
Before we enter upon the vapulation which we intend to inflict on Lord
Brougham's literary hide for his innumerable acts of mistranslation, interpolation,
and mutilation committed upon Demosthenes — whom in his notes he
designates rather ...
9
Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan
he returned to his own ministers, who adopted measures of the greatest violence
; they proceeded to a system of vapulation and explosion ; they flogged and
tortured, and by these means, they spread, at least, if not created, a rebellion.
10
A Grammar of the English Language, etc
... Home Tooke was giving the grammarians a merciless vapulation, he
unaccountably let slip the fol' lowing sentence a “ We may use which we'will of
the two prepositions 0F and Fan, and still express the same thing." This Mr.
Stackhouse ...