_Commodus_ (the Emperor), a law of his to prevent the cheats of the Priests of Bellona, in Syria, 87, 88. _Confessors._ Their great influence over their penitents, and the reason of it, 21, 22. Assume a power of beating their penitents, 227. Are forbidden by Pope Adrian I. to do so, 229. Ingenious penances imposed by some of them, 230, & _seq._ Dangers of their profession, 243, & _seq._ Advice given them by St. Charles Borromee, 245. Their situation with respect to decorum, _ibid._ The expedients contrived by some among them, 246, 247. _Conformities_ (the Book of the) a farrago of superstitious trash; an account of the book, 394. _Cornelia_ Juliana, a Holy Nun, gives the Devil his due, 305. _Cornelian_ discipline defined, 235. See _Discipline_. _Cotelier_, a Doctor of the Sorbonne, his Monuments of the Greek Church quoted, 250. _Coxcomb_, a Russian; how chastised by a set of Ladies, 334, & _seq._ _Crofton_ (Zachary), a Reverend Divine, and a propagator of Cornelian flagellations in this Country, 237. Farther account of him, 238. _Cuistre_, a flagellator in a public School; the original meaning of the word, 189. _Curate_ (a French), animadverts upon the Abbé Boileau for his depreciating the lower discipline, 120. _Cynic_ Philosophers, great partisans of nakedness, 391. D. _Dacier_ (Mons.) a very learned man in all that relates to antiquity, quoted, 96. _Dagobert_, heir to the Crown of France in the year 526, orders a correction to be inflicted upon his preceptor, 74, 75. _Damian_ (the Cardinal) the great Patron of Flagellations, 192, 201, & _seq._ Declares freedom from accoutrements the best state, for performing such pious exercises, 223. A convincing argument of his on the subject, quoted, 389. _D’Aunoy_ (Madame), a French Lady of quality, her Journey into Spain quoted, 375, 377, 385. _D’Arbrissel_ (Robert), lies with young women by way of mortification, 246. _Dauteroche_ (Abbé Chappe), his Journey to Siberia quoted, 409, 410. _Denmark_, flagellations are not unknown in that Country, and are even sometimes performed at Court, 291. _Devil_ (the), makes it a common practice to flagellate Saints, 125, & _seq._ A holy Nun at last proves an overmatch for him, 305. _Disciplinants._ See _Flagellants_. _Disciplines_, the different meanings of that word, 19. The great variety of instruments used for inflicting them, 226. The Cornelian discipline, what it is, 235. The upper and lower disciplines defined, 21. The lower discipline is practised by a number of Saints of both Sexes, 120. The dangers of these two kinds of disciplines, 400, & _seq._ See _Lower Discipline_. Voluntary disciplines, see _Voluntary Flagellations_.