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Pilloried
Pillory Pil"lo*ry, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pilloried; p. pr. & vb. n. Pillorying.] [Cf. F. pilorier.] 1. To set in, or punish with, the pillory. ``Hungering for Puritans to pillory.' --Macaulay. 2. Figuratively, to expose to public scorn. --Gladstone.

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- of pillory and stocks – A long history Cunningham, Peter (1849). A handbook for London: Past and Present, Volume 2. J. Murray. p. 604. "Pilloried in Delaware;...
- A finger pillory is a style of restraint where the fingers are held in a wooden block, using an L-shaped hole to keep the knuckle bent inside the block...
- and his Parliament who had the statue erected here in 1675. A prominent pillory, where malefactors were publicly flogged, stood alongside for centuries...
- still extant sodomy laws promulgated by Henry VIII in 1534) and six were pilloried for this offence. Along with Oscar Wilde's imprisonment for a similar...
- including the first Carthusian Martyrs, were executed and many more pilloried. The most prominent resisters included John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester...
- suitably attired, the miscreant was paraded through the town, effectively pilloried. Drunkenness was first made a civil offence in England by the Ale Houses...
- angled blade suspended at the top. The condemned person is secured with a pillory at the bottom of the frame, holding the position of the neck directly below...
- term and pillory in 1732 after giving false information to the courts, from which he benefited financially. He was killed while in the pillory by Edward...
- ears as an act of physical punishment. It was performed along with the pillorying or immobilisation in the stocks, and sometimes alongside punishments such...
- example, in 1637 William Prynne, Henry Burton and John Bastwick were pilloried, whipped and mutilated by cropping and imprisoned indefinitely for publishing...