Beat
To be beaten in a dream by an angry figure bodes family discord and jarring; to beat a child marks an ungenerous use of advantage. The dream tends to touch the violence of frayed relations, and to ask where conflict has turned harsh, and whether power is being used to wound rather than to right.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for beat, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
It bodes no good to dream of being beaten by an angry person; family jars and discord are signified.
To beat a child, ungenerous advantage is taken by you of another; perhaps the tendency will be to cruelly treat a child.