castigatory
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castigatory
adjective more castigatory · most castigatory
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Serving or tending to castigate.
Similar: punitory, vindicatory, vindictive, castigatory, punishmental, punitive
noun castigatories
- An instrument formerly used to punish and correct women whose behavior was considered unseemly; the ducking stool or trebucket. For which offence she may be indicted; and , if convicted , shall be sentenced to be placed in a certain engine of correction called the trebucket , castigatory, or ducking stool
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