Brewer's: Discipline

(A). A scourge used by Roman Catholics for penitential purposes.

“Before the cross and altar a lamp was still burning, and on the floor lay a small discipline or penitential scourge of small cord and wire, the lashes of which were stained with recent blood.” —Sir W Scott: The Talisman. chap. iv

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