1604 Bp. W. Barlow Sum Conference (1638) To Rdr.,In one ranke whereof you may place our Hercules-Limbo⁓mastix.
1625 Bp. R. Montagu App Cæsar 291Incomparable Hooker, that Puritano-mastix, might well say . [ etc.]
1651 H. L'Estrange ( title)Smectymnuo-mastix: or, Short Animadversions vpon Smectymnuus . [ etc.]
1656 S. Holland Zara (1719) 76It would have puzzell'd that Female Mastix Mantuan to have limm'd this she Chymera.
1656 Heylin Extraneus Vap. 234in condemning Infants unbaptized to the pains of Hell..incurred the name of Infanto-Mastix. [ St. Augustine]
1660 Gauden Serm. Funeral BrounrigEp. Ded. ,Those unreasonable Episcopomastix, whose malice is as blind, as it is bold, against all Bishops.
a1662 Heylin Cypr. Anglicus (1668) 50Humphries..got the title of a Papisto Mastyx.
1671 Glanvill Disc. M. Stubbe 100And when the Virtuoso-Mastix hath proved that these are not Complements . [ etc.]
1818 F. Hodgson (title, in Byron's Works 1901 V. 278)Latino-Mastix
1818 ― ( Ibid. )Sæculo-Mastix, or the Lash of the Age we live in.
1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §15. 273Hierocles, who was the Mastix of Christianity and Champion for the gods.
ORIGIN: from Greek mastix scourge, after Homeromastix scourge of Homer (the name given to the grammarian Zoïlus on account of the severity of his censure of the Homeric poems).
-mas·tix
\|mastiks\ noun combining form
Etymology: Greek mastig-, mastix whip, scourge
1. -es : attacker of a (specified) person or thing
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2.[New Latin, from Greek mastig-, mastix]
a. : one having (such) a whip — in generic names in zoology
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b. : one having (such) a flagellum or (such or so many) flagella — in generic names in zoology
< Chilomastix >
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