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Definitions for chastise
tʃæsˈtaɪz, ˈtʃæs taɪzchas·tise

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correctverb

    censure severely

    "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks"

GCIDE

  1. Chastiseverb

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

Wiktionary

  1. chastiseverb

    To punish or scold someone.

  2. Etymology: chastier, from castigo

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To CHASTISEverb

    Etymology: castigo, Lat.

    My breast I’ll burst with straining of my courage,
    But I will chastise this high minded strumpet. William Shakespeare, Hen. VI.

    I am glad to see the vanity or envy of the canting chymists thus discovered and chastised. Robert Boyle, Sceptical Chymist.

    How seldom is the world affrighted or chastised with signs or prodigies, earthquakes or inundations, famines or plagues? Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra.

    Like you, commission’d to chastise and bless,
    He must avenge the world, and give it peace. Matthew Prior.

    Hie thee hither,
    That I may pour my spirits in thine ear,
    And chastise, with the valour of my tongue,
    All that impedes thee. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

    Know, Sir, that I
    Will not wait pinion’d at your master’s court,
    Nor once be chastis’d with the sober eye
    Of dull Octavia. William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra.

    The gay social sense
    By decency chastis’d. James Thomson.

Wikipedia

  1. chastise

    Castigation (from the Latin castigatio) or chastisement (via the French châtiment) is the infliction of severe (moral or corporal) punishment. One who administers a castigation is a castigator or chastiser. In earlier times, castigation specifically meant restoring one to a religiously pure state, called chastity. In ancient Rome, it was also a term for the magistrate called a censor (in the original sense, rather than the later politicized evolution), who castigated in the name of the pagan state religion but with the authority of the 'pious' state. In Christian times, this terminology was adopted but roughly restricted to the physical sphere: chastity became a matter of approved sexual conduct, castigation usually meaning physical punishment, either as a form of penance, as a voluntary pious exercise (see mortification of the flesh) or as educational or other coercion, while the use for other (e.g. verbal) punishments (and criticism etc.) is now often perceived as metaphorical. Self-castigation is applied by the repentant culprit to himself, for moral and/or religious reasons, notably as penance.

ChatGPT

  1. chastise

    Chastise means to criticize, rebuke, or reprimand someone severely, often in a formal or authoritative manner. It can also refer to the act of disciplining, punishing, or correcting someone in order to help them improve their behavior or performance.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Chastiseverb

    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

  2. Chastiseverb

    to reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses

  3. Etymology: [OE. chastisen; chastien + ending -isen + modern -ise, -ize, L. -izare, Gr. -i`zein. See Chasten.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Chastise

    chas-tīz′, v.t. to inflict punishment upon for the purpose of correction: to reduce to order or to obedience.—adj. Chastīs′able.—n. Chas′tisement.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of chastise in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of chastise in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of chastise in a Sentence

  1. Doug Lamborn:

    A husband can physically and verbally chastise their wife in order to control their behavior. The Bible says so.

  2. Proverb:

    God wanted to chastise mankind, so he sent lawyers.

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