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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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... tory camp-meeting not far distant, Marion despatched the brave captain Snipes with a party to chastise them. They had scarcely got upon the tory cruising-ground, before, at a short turn in the road, they came full butt upon a large body of horsemen. Supposing them to be tories, Snipes instantly gave the word to charge; himself leading the way with his usual impetuosity. ...

— The Life of General Francis Marion • Mason Locke Weems

... the common people. When all were again assembled he made, as Luke tells us, a short speech to them, reiterating his conviction of His innocence, corroborating his own opinion by Herod's, and closing by a proposal which he hoped would meet the whole case. "I will therefore chastise Him and release Him." Was there ever such a compromise? A little before he had solemnly affirmed that he could find in Him no fault at all, but if that were the case, why chastise Him? And if He were guilty of the ...

— Love to the Uttermost - Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. • F. B. Meyer

... Foreign Office took Nelidoff's view, and bade him press Turkey to restore the "legal order" of things in Eastern Roumelia. Further, the Ministers of the Czar found that Servia, Greece, and perhaps also Roumania, intended to oppose the aggrandisement of Bulgaria; and it therefore seemed easy to chastise "the Battenberger" for his wanton disturbance of ...

— The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) • John Holland Rose

... ports blocked up. Even the Restraining Bill of the present session does not go to the length of the Boston Port Act. The same ideas of prudence, which induced you not to extend equal punishment to equal guilt, even when you were punishing, induce me, who mean not to chastise, but to reconcile, to be satisfied with ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... Plebeian, when British gold was spent literally by the million in this country, to strengthen the Democratic party and build up free trade, slavery and English interests always went hand in hand to oppress the interests of American free labor. But we shall soon change all that. It is in our power to chastise British impudence most effectually, and we shall probably soon be called upon to do it, by buying nothing ...

— Continental Monthly, Vol. II. July, 1862. No. 1. • Various

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