verbĕrātĭo

I. a striking, beating.

I. Lit.: flagellorum castigatio, vinculorum verberatio, Dig. 48, 19, 7; 47, 10, 5, § 1.—

II. Trop., chastisement, punishment: mirificam mi verberationem cessationis epistulā dedisti, i. e. satisfaction, amends (with reference to an expression previously used: verberavi te cogitationis tacito convicio), Q. Cic. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 27, 1 Orell. N. cr.; cf. id. ib. 16, 26, 1.