Castigatory
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Castigatory is an adjective meaning Serving or tending to castigate.
Meaning
Serving or tending to castigate.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) An instrument formerly used to punish and correct women whose behavior was considered unseemly; the ducking stool or trebucket.
Example Sentences
For which offence she may be indicted; and , if convicted , shall be sentenced to be placed in a certain engine of correction called the trebucket , castigatory, or ducking stool
Word Forms
- castigatories
Synonyms for castigatory
Depending on context, synonyms include punitory, vindicatory, vindictive, punishmental, punitive.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include censorious, censurious, exemplary, condemned, agitative, corruptive.
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