FLAGELLANTS
\flˈad͡ʒɛlənts], \flˈadʒɛlənts], \f_l_ˈa_dʒ_ɛ_l_ə_n_t_s]\
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[L.] Fanatics who, first at Perugia, A.d. 1260, and elsewhere through Italy, then, at intervals, in many other parts of Europe till the sixteenth century, found in self-scourging a vent for wild religious feeling.-Milman, Hist, of Latin Christianity, bk. vi. 334.
By Henry Percy Smith
