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verb

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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"Chastise" Quotes from Famous Books

... be such as appears intolerable not only to a good man but absolutely to any freeman, and in the next place to be so manifest that it could not have been denied even by the person who had done it, and moreover, of such a kind that the person who did chastise it was the person who above all others was bound to chastise it. So that it was not so proper nor so honourable for that matter to be brought before a court of justice as for it to be chastised in that manner in which, and by that ...

— The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 • Cicero

... small was the number of our warriors in comparison with the hosts of the enemy, and yet they gave way to us, for strength is with the believers. The Russians have taken Akhulgo and have razed its walls. Allah permitted this to chastise you for your unbelief; for he knows all your projects and all your thoughts. But I mocked at the power of your enemies, and drove them from Aschiltach, and smote them at Tiletli, and turned their deeds to shame. When afterwards the Pacha (General Fesi) with his great army drew near ...

— Life of Schamyl - And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia • John Milton Mackie

... grasp that cane.—While we are so conspicuously bless'd with laws to chastise a culprit, the mace of justice is the only proper weapon for the injured.—Let me talk ...

— John Bull - The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts • George Colman

... to my mother, that the principle trouble was her lack of knowledge of my disposition. That if she would shame me at times when I was unruly, and make requests instead of demands when she wanted favors from me, and above all, never to chastise me, she would see quite a change ...

— Twenty Years of Hus'ling • J. P. Johnston

... in frustrating his aspiring vassal; and the emperor refused to crown Charles as king when he appeared at Trier eager for the ceremony. The most humiliating, however, of the defeats which Charles encountered came from an unexpected quarter. He attempted to chastise his neighbors the Swiss for siding with his enemies and was soundly beaten by that brave people ...

— An Introduction to the History of Western Europe • James Harvey Robinson

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