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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

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

, and cf.

To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.

To emend; to correct.

[Obs.]

Verb.

To chastise; to punish by stripes; to correct; to chasten; to check.