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castigated
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 .] To punish by stripes; to chastise ...
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vb. (en-past of: castigate )
Usage examples of castigated.
Sometimes scientists are castigated for doing evil, and sometimes for warning about the evil uses to which science may be put.
He had seen her first in the NIH lab where she had castigated a careless researcher, and he had been shocked to meet her again at her sister's place, but those two encounters had been enough to know he wanted to spend time with her.
I have castigated him and impressed on him the need to keep me completely informed.
Indeed, I had often been castigated and belittled for having been too masculine.
I bad, already, be begun to suspect that manhood was not a mere pretention, as I had been taught, but soomething selected for, as seems reasonable, like the nature of the eagle and the lion, in the long, harsh realities of a brutal evolution, but now, for the first time, I had begun to suspect that my conception of manhood, so advanced I had thought, did little more than begin to hint at the possible glories of a suppressed, thwarted, tortured reality, a reality genetically dispositional in every cell in a man's body, a reality feared and castigated by a counterbiological culture.
I recalled that I should have castigated myself for the feelings of strength which had been in me at that time, but I had failed to do so.
Goreans, often castigated for their cruelty, would find such monstrosities unthinkable.
The Church (formerly the largest publisher of bibles and other religious and "earthly" texts and the upholder and protector of reading in the Dark Ages) castigated and censored the printing of "heretical" books (especially the vernacular bibles of the Reformation) and restored the Inquisition for the specific purpose of controlling book publishing.
The Internet is often castigated as an English-language, affluent people's toy.
Often she castigated herself for such shows of childishness, but Cressida was no "Patient Griselda' however often she promised herself that she would make an effort to curb this tendency towards waspish hess She was an excellent horsewoman and did not find the long hours in the saddle too trying.
The other was paddled, castigated, and scolded by those who had laid down bets on her.