מַרְדּוּת II, rebellion, disobedience.—מכת מ׳ (מכות, abbrev. מ"מ) punishment for disobedience, left to the discretion of the court, contrad. to the Biblically ordained punishment (מַלְקוּת). Naz. IV, 3 (23ᵃ) אם אינה … תספוג מ׳ מ׳ if she cannot receive the lawful punishment of forty lashes, let her receive the punishment for rebellion. Keth. 45ᵇ. Sabb. 40ᵇ; Yeb. 52ᵃ; Ḥull. 141ᵇ. [Rashi: = רדיה, ‘blows enforcing submission’, v. מֶרֶד II a. preced. w.]