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English → English (gcide) Definition: Scaphism Scaphism \Scaph"ism\, n. [Gr. ska`fh a trough.] An ancient mode of punishing criminals among the Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the sun and to insects until he died. [1913 Webster]