資料來源 : pyDict

揮鞭抽打者;苦修者

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Flagellant \Flag"el*lant\, n. [L. flagellans, p. p. of
   flagellare: cf.F. flagellant. See {Flagellate}.] (Eccl.
   Hist.)
   One of a fanatical sect which flourished in Europe in the
   13th and 14th centuries, and maintained that flagellation was
   of equal virtue with baptism and the sacrament; -- called
   also {disciplinant}.

資料來源 : WordNet®

flagellant
     n 1: a person who is whipped or whips himself for sexual
          gratification
     2: a person who whips himself as a religious penance