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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 by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.
To emend; to correct. [Obs.]
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vb. (present participle of castigate English)
Usage examples of "castigating".
No more arguing and citing examples and quoting the famous dead and castigating the infamous living.
He could still remember his father's thunderous voice castigating him when, at eighteen years of age, he had asked to be relieved of his duties as prince and be given a commission in the Royal Guard, instead.
Even Horace Greeley's Tribune had printed a dispatch from Wilkeson, its chief correspondent in the Peninsula, praising McClellan and castigating the Secretary of War for throwing away the chance to capture Richmond and end the war.
He put in a ringing defense of the right of dissent, castigating the supposed patriots who were too quick to label as "traitor" anyone who stood for constitutional principle.
Indeed, she spent over a third of her total word count castigating Hayes for the customary sleaziness of his regular “Tattler's Tidbits” column and another third pleading with their fellows of the press not to leap to judgment on the basis of such a suspect source.
Indeed, she spent over a third of her total word count castigating Hayes for the customary sleaziness of his regular "Tattler's Tidbits" column and another third pleading with their fellows of the press not to leap to judgment on the basis of such a suspect source.
Honor thought almost absently, then gave herself a mental shake, castigating herself for hiding behind extraneous thoughts.
Skeeter gulped, while scratching his itching thigh surreptitiously and mentally castigating the British for insisting on woolen suits.