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Chastise v. t. (past & past part. chastised; pres. part. chastising)

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." "I am glad to see the vanity or envy of the canting chemists thus discovered and chastised."

To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses. "The gay, social sense, by decency chastised."

To criticize (a person) strongly and directly in order to correct behavior.

Synonyms: castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct, dress down.

Synonyms: See Chasten.

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Etymology of 'Chastise'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... taken away from mothers and nurses, and tamed with bit and bridle, being treated as a freeman in that he learns and is taught, but as a slave in that he may be chastised by all other freemen; and the freeman who neglects to chastise him shall be disgraced. All these matters will be under the supervision ...

— Laws • Plato

... of Louisiana declares: 'The slave is entirely subject to the will of the master, who may correct and chastise him, though not with unusual rigor, nor so as to maim or mutilate him, or to expose him to the danger of loss of life, or to cause his death.'" Who shall ...

— An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans • Lydia Maria Child

... young; one of the "blandishments," I suppose, was an epigram by Sir Thomas to the effect that though a wife was a heavy burden she might be useful if she would die and leave her husband money. In Utopia, he assures us, husbands chastise ...

— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith

... of my charge and my character as a peaceful priest. I am the shepherd of a Catholic flock, not a wolf who tears the sheep in his fierceness. But sometimes I can bear no more, and God forgive me! I have often been tempted to raise the shepherd's crook and chastise with blows that rebel flock who harbour ...

— The Shadow of the Cathedral • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... the people, and behold I, having examined him before you, find no cause in this man in those things wherein you accuse him. No, nor Herod neither. For I sent you to him, and behold, nothing worthy of death is done to him. I will chastise him, therefore, and ...

— The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ • Anna Catherine Emmerich

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