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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

plagosus

. See

Fond of flogging;

as, a

plagose

master

[R.]

plagose ‎(comparative more plagose, superlative most plagose)

Fond of flogging.
- 1868, Mortimer Collins, Sweet Anne Page (page 23)
  Now Mary Langton was the only one her grandfather ever petted; whence Miss Harriet's plagose propensity.
- 1969, Robert Lynd, The peal of bells (page 131)
  Other boys from other schools used to relate their experiences with plagose headmasters and describe how, by laying a hair from a horse's tail across your palm, you could outwit or at least diminish the sting of the cane.

plāgōse