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Scourge \Scourge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scourged}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Scourging}.] [From {Scourge}, n.: cf. OF. escorgier.]
1. To whip severely; to lash.

Is it lawful for you to scourge a . . . Roman?
--Acts xxii.
25.

2. To punish with severity; to chastise; to afflict, as for
sins or faults, and with the purpose of correction.

Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth
every son whom he receiveth. --Heb. xii. 6.

3. To harass or afflict severely.

To scourge and impoverish the people. --Brougham.

Scourge \Scourge\, n. [F. escourg['e]e, fr. L. excoriata (sc.
scutica) a stripped off (lash or whip), fr. excoriare to
strip, to skin. See {Excoriate}.]
1. A lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to
inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or
discipline; a whip.

Up to coach then goes
The observed maid, takes both the scourge and reins.
--Chapman.

2. Hence, a means of inflicting punishment, vengeance, or
suffering; an infliction of affliction; a punishment.

Sharp scourges of adversity. --Chaucer.

What scourge for perjury
Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?
--Shak.

Officials unleashed millions of sterile pink Mediterranean fruit flies over a 16-square-mile area Tuesday in an effort to breed the agricultural scourge to extinction.
The written pleas were filed Monday in Municipal Court by the Contemporary Arts Center and director Dennis Barrie, who were indicted April 7, the day the exhibit opened in this city that styles itself a scourge against smut.
But he said the officials shared "the need for close cooperation among democracies to decrease this scourge" of terrorism.
Euphoric investors who rushed in to back the deal will now have to sit back and wait for a miracle, a successful vaccine against the AIDS scourge that will also turn a dollar.
As the nation's scourge of illegal drugs continued to worsen through the 1980s, Congress responded before each election with more laws and harsher penalties.
The rivers are threatening to burst their banks. Amid such plenty, it is odd to recall the scourge of drought.
It would also provide nearly $1 billion more in the upcoming year to fight "the scourge of drugs" and would restore some $1.7 billion in cuts sought by Reagan in the Medicaid program for medical assistance for poor people.
A 15-year assault on tiny parasites has halted an ancient scourge in much of Africa, sparing millions the threat of blindness, program director Ebrahim Samba said Thursday.
The Mounties estimate the drug trade in Canada is now worth $8.3 billion a year, while their budget to combat the scourge is less than $83 million.
Mosquitoes are the latest scourge to follow in the wake of Hurricane Hugo, but the Air Force Reserve is coming to the rescue with an aerial bombardment on the pests this weekend.
There are no old school ties sported here: the Apaches, the scourge of the class of '78 in a large Dublin Comprehensive, are now young professionals of varying degrees of respectability.
Your presence here and in other places is meant to prevent the scourge of war.
Their experiences among the big men in Tokyo makes rivetting viewing. The controversial Camille Paglia, the scourge of the feminists, is let loose on the Lolita syndrome in Without Walls (9 pm on Channel 4).
Once a worldwide scourge, TB is now relatively rare in industrialized countries and easily treatable with antibiotics.
"I don't want to sound euphoric about it," he said, but "we're making some headway." Kempthorne told Bush, "Boise is not immune from the drug scourge.
Just one day before the attacks, Cano pleaded with IAPA members to find a way "to combat this tremendous scourge." Jorge Hernandez of the daily newspaper El Colombiano of Medellin told members: "I want to confess that, yes, we're afraid.
As the scourge of Europe's state telecommunications monopolies, Bob Allen comes as a bit of a shock.
It was up by 10 per cent in the first nine months over the same period in 1990, before the Gulf crisis took hold. Inflation, a perennial scourge, has come down to an annual rate of less than 10 per cent after totalling 18 per cent in 1991.
Baker expressed hope that a U.N.-led effort to act against drug smuggling will help the world come closer to ending the drug scourge.
For many people selling old treasures, the scourge shopper is the Retailer, the Darth Vader of garage sales.
Once the scourge of corporate boards, Mr. Pickens is no longer especially feared.
What is going well, and advancing with giant strides, is the most terrible scourge of all time: Aids.
To attack the scourge of AIDS, I propose $2 billion for additional research, education, and treatment in 1989 _ a 38 percent increase over the 1988 level and more than double the federal government's effort in 1987.
The lab was at first in a close race with the other major government AIDS laboratory, that at the National Institutes of Health in Washington, to find ways to combat the growing scourge.
Fifa plans to fight the scourge of defensive football by rewarding wins in the group stage with three points, although this will not stop teams playing for penalties in the knock out.
"My intention is to donate this treasure to humanity. In its humble way, it could help with the scourge of cancer, AIDS or education.

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