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Definition of Castigating

Castigating
Castigate Cas"ti*gate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Castigated; p. pr. & vb. n. Castigating.] [L. castigatus, p. p. of castigare to correct, punish; castus pure, chaste + agere to move, drive. See Caste, and cf. Chasten.] 1. To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely. 2. To emend; to correct. [Obs.]

Meaning of Castigating from wikipedia

- One who administers a castigation is a castigator or chastiser. According to an etymology recorded by Thomas Aquinas, castigation specifically meant restoring...
- Les Châtiments (French pronunciation: [le ʃatimɑ̃], "The Castigations" or "The Punishments") is a collection of poems by Victor Hugo, first published in...
- against Trump. On December 6, Colorado Secretary of State Wayne W. Williams castigated Democratic electors who had filed a lawsuit in Federal court to have the...
- to the Empire hidden. Syril goes to live with his mother after being castigated and fired. Imperial Security Bureau (ISB) lieutenant Dedra Meero s****s...
- be suppressed for the sake of enlightenment. The early Buddhist texts castigated women as detrimental beings. The Buddha himself said often that a woman's...
- dripped from their eyes; plus, they had wings. Alecto's job as a Fury is castigating the moral crimes (such as anger) of humans, especially if they are against...
- "entitled and mean", particularly to people in the service industry. She castigated people who did not have many followers on Instagram and bragged that she...
- relocation of his ministry to his Hong Lim stronghold and continued castigation of the British and civil servants was regarded by his colleagues as disruptive...
- initial lack of response to Adolf Hitler's threats of war. Rather than castigating the po****r appea****t policy that the British government then pursued...
- government as "bedeviled by gossip, barraged by accusations of venality, castigated by the opposition and threatened by a final rupture of cordiality with...