Noun : Disease and famine are scourges of humanity.    From Dictionary.com. 

Have been scourged, is an expression of some kind of European or Swedish animosity against America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 - Presentation Speech] Reference

Then they stripped Our Lord of His garments, fastened His hands to a low stone pillar, and there He was "scourged" by the Roman soldiers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine] Reference

The cadi threatened to have him scourged to death.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

Caught, scourged and hanged it on the out-law's tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freedom, Truth and Beauty] Reference

And after they have scourged him, they will put him to death.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 49: Luke The Challoner Revision] Reference

Well, a few years ago, Chicago was bitterly scourged with a fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference

He was also cruelly scourged, having received three hundred stripes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

From barricade, breastwork, and riflepit, how the scourged rebels pour out!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference

It cannot be denied that our country is most horribly scourged by intemperance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference

They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference

They were first scourged till the whiplashes had almost cut their bodies to pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light] Reference

And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference

The people, enraged at their boldness, begged they might be scourged, which was granted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

For he shall be delivered to the Gentiles and shall be mocked and scourged and spit upon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 49: Luke The Challoner Revision] Reference

Judas had already been whipped and scourged by his remorse of conscience clean out of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons on Biblical Characters] Reference

The condemned person, previous to being beheaded with the axe, was bound to a post and scourged.    From Wordnik.com.  [C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino] Reference

The city was scourged by two other general conflagrations, the first occurring on the 18th of May.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference

St. Marcella was scourged by them for the treasures which she had long before distributed among the poor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified: and the third day he shall rise again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 47: Matthew The Challoner Revision] Reference

Turpilius was condemned by the war council, and paid the forfeit with his life, after having previously been scourged.    From Wordnik.com.  [C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino] Reference

And there, sure enough, they had the poor fellows just outside, waiting to be scourged for the propitiating of our wrath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference

For this, when about to embark for home, he was seized, brought before you, charged with being a spy, scourged and tortured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

Her father and mother perceiving this, used her very ill, and scourged her day and night to compel her to renounce the faith.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

And we see the pathetic little family scourged by hollow-eyed hunger from the land of their fathers into the land of the heathen Moabites.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons on Biblical Characters] Reference

His leading articles, the stereotyped publications of the wishes of his heart, scourged the abuses which existed in the counties and in the cities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference