castigatoryadj.n.
/ˈkastɪɡətəri/ A. adj.
Pertaining to a castigator or to castigation; chastising, corrective, punitive.
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society > authority > punishment > [adjective] > corrective
correcta1464
castigatory1625
castigative1641
emendative1642
emendatory1660
chastening1667
correcting1692
correctional1838
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [adjective] > of nature of or rebuking severely
objurgatory1576
castigatory1625
castigative1641
objurgative1854
objurgating1858
1625 T. Godwin Romanae Historiae Anthologia (new ed.) iii. iii. i. 187 The corporall punishments are either..Capitall..or Castigatory, such corrections as serued for the humbling and reforming of the offender.
1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. i. i. 108 The sin itself is castigatory, and hath such like effects.
1866 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Mar. 11 The castigatory measures in which our soldiers and sailors..were subsequently employed.
An instrument of chastisement. Obsolete.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun]
castigatorya1641
walloper1832
slappera1886
a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) I. 201 Stocks, cage, tumbrell, pillory, Cuckingstoole, and other Juditialls and castigatories.
1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. xiii. (R.) A certain engine of correction called the trebucket, castigatory, or cucking stool.
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