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Word of the Day : November 2, 2022
FUSTIGATE
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verb FUSS-tuh-gayt
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WHAT IT MEANS
Fustigate means “to criticize severely.” Its older, less common meaning is “to
beat with or as if with a short heavy club.”
// The singer’s awards show performance was fustigated by several prominent
media outlets.
// Although they're sitting atop the standings now, the team went through a
rough patch of getting absolutely fustigated by their division rivals.
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FUSTIGATE IN CONTEXT
“This article explores major ways in which comedy exemplifies the power of
popular culture to defy political censorship, advance freedom of expression, and
contribute to the democratization of political culture in contemporary Africa.
... The article does so from the combined perspectives of political history and
social philosophy. The latter perspective refers to the comedians’ conjuring up
of Islamic and West African religious creeds to fustigate particular social
flaws and moral deviancies that affect their society.” — Mohamed Saliou Camara,
Nokoko (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada), 1 Jan. 2022
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A modern fustigation won’t leave a bump on your head, but severe criticism can
be a blow to your self-esteem. When fustigate first left its mark on the English
language in the mid-17th century, it did so with the meaning “to cudgel or beat
with a short heavy club”—a sense that reflects the word’s Latin source, the noun
fustis, meaning “club” or “staff.” (Beat, “to strike repeatedly,” is also a
distant relative of fustis.) The “criticize” sense of fustigate may be more
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