BASTONADE, the punishment of beating or dubbing a criminal with a stick. The word is formed of the French baston, a "flick" or "slap." The bastonade was a punishment used both among the ancient Greeks, Romans and Jews, and still obtains among the Turks. The Romans called it fustigatio, fustium admonitio, or fustibus cardi; which differed from the flagellatio, as the former was done with a stick, the latter with a rod or scourge. The fustigation was a lighter punishment, and inflicted on freemen; the flagellation a severer, and reserved for slaves. It was also called tympanum, because the patient here was beat with sticks, like a drum.—The punishment is much in use in the east to this day. The method there practised is thus: the criminal being laid on his belly, his feet are raised, and tied to a stake, held fast by officers for the purpose; in which posture he is beaten with a cudgel on the soles of his feet, back, chin, &c. to the number of 100 or more blows.