Past tense of bastinade; subjected to a bastinade punishment.
Past participle of bastinade, formed by adding the -ed suffix to the verb form of bastinade. The verb form emerged in English through translation and description of this foreign punishment practice.
Historical accounts of diplomats and merchants who were bastinaded in Ottoman courts created a kind of cultural shock value that made the word stick in English literature as a symbol of 'exotic' brutality.
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