Usually means: Whipping as punishment or ritual.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. flagellation: Merriam-Webster
  2. flagellation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flagellation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flagellation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flagellation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flagellation, flagellation: Wordnik
  7. flagellation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. flagellation: Wiktionary
  9. flagellation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flagellation: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. flagellation: Dictionary.com
  12. flagellation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Flagellation, The Flagellation (Piero della Francesca): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Flagellation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. flagellation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. flagellation: Rhymezone
  17. Flagellation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. flagellation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. flagellation: FreeDictionary.org
  20. flagellation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. flagellation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flagellation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flagellation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. flagellation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. flagellation: Medical dictionary

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  1. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Flagellation: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flagellation: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (flagellation)

noun:  A beating consisting of lashes, notably as corporal punishment or mortification, such as a whipping or scourging.
noun:  (botany) The formation by plants of flagella, or their arrangement

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