browbeat (v.) Look up browbeat at Dictionary.com
"to bully," originally "to bear down with stern or arrogant looks," 1581, from brow + beat (v.).
"[I]t appears from the earliest quotations ... that the brow in question was that of the beater, not of the beaten party; but it is not evident whether the meaning was 'to beat with one's (frowning) brows,' or 'to beat (?lower) one's brows at." [OED]
Browbeating is attested from 1581.