Castigate

/ˈkæs.tɪ.ɡeɪt/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive, formal) To punish or reprimand someone severely..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, formal) To punish or reprimand someone severely.
2. (transitive, formal) To execrate or condemn something in a harsh manner, especially by public criticism.
3. (transitive, rare) To revise or make corrections to a publication.
4. Subdued, chastened, moderated
5. Revised and emended

Example Sentences

Perhaps disarmed by his own scandalous behaviour with Bathsheba, he was in no position to castigate his son for a similar fault.

God doth indurate, when hee doth not by and by caſtigate a ſynner.

The curse of avarice and cupidity / Is all my sermon, for it frees the pelf. / Out come the pence, and specially for myself, / For my exclusive purpose is to win / And not at all to castigate their sin.

But despite all this, for Barkan, the universalist notion of an 'Ottoman feudalism' was anathema: he castigated this idea as the concentrated expression of the anti-Ottomanism of the Kemalist Enlightenment.

Lewis should have castigated the reasoning employed rather than the emotion, which offers no clue as to which side of the argument a person will adopt.

From the outset, this issue becomes an often double-edged sword wherein Japan is both valorized and castigated.

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Word Forms

• castigates
• castigating
• castigated
• more castigate
• most castigate

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