Crossword clues for chastising
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chastise \Chas*tise"\ (ch[a^]s*t[imac]z"; ch[a^]s"t[imac]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chastised (ch[a^]s*t[imac]zd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Chastising.] [OE. chastisen; chastien + ending -isen + modern -ise, -ize, L. -izare, Gr. -i`zein. See Chasten.]
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To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish, as with stripes.
How fine my master is! I am afraid He will chastise me.
--Shak.I am glad to see the vanity or envy of the canting chemists thus discovered and chastised.
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To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses.
The gay, social sense, by decency chastised.
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To criticize (a person) strongly and directly in order to correct behavior.
Syn: castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct, dress down.
Syn: See Chasten.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of chastise English)
Usage examples of "chastising".
Augustus, who united the powers of both magistrates, adopted their different modes of repressing or chastising the license of divorce.
Instead of chastising the disaffection of the Koreish, he endeavored to cut out their tongues, (his own expression,) and to secure their attachment by a superior measure of liberality: Abu Sophian alone was presented with three hundred camels and twenty ounces of silver.
The conquest of Kipzak, or the Western Tartary, ^17 was founded on the double motive of aiding the distressed, and chastising the ungrateful.
He gave her a hard, chastising look, rose to his feet, and stomped from the room, slamming the door of his office behind him.
By publicly chastising Batu and calling him a coward, the minister had cast doubt on any criticisms that the general might in turn level at him.
Hsuang snapped, chastising himself for allowing the barbarians to strike the first blow.
Batu shook his head, chastising himself for allowing familial feelings to interfere with his duty.
Beware, that by example of your living, Or by your negligence in chastising, That they not perish for I dare well say, If that they do, ye shall it dear abeye.
For certainly my Father's chastising I dare not abiden in no wise, So hideous is his full reckoning.
Engaged in chastising our enemies, we find you placing yourselves in our path in arms against us.
However, I will try, if you will support me, to let nothing of this happen in our time, by gaining you, the many, and by chastising the authors of such machinations, not merely when they are caught in the act a difficult feat to accomplish but also for what they have the wish though not the power to do.
A fair proportion of my charges need chastising, and some need it often.
Behind Lucy, another full length view, her elevated full red bottom and rosy thighs, dark quim, soles of her feet kicking up, the full length of the chastising arm and the belt rising slowly and quick down SMACK!
What was the probability that Gringe would get a kick out of chastising his little office whore?
Thankfully, Byron didn't make the mistake of asking questions or chastising her.