verb.
Simple past tense and past participle of maltreat.
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adjective.
subjected to cruel treatment
Word Usage
"Pasha in disguise, he is every where feasted, and treated with the most respectful attention, until the real truth being discovered, he is bastinadoed, spit upon, plucked by the beard, and, in short, maltreated in a thousand different ways."