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  • Point out his fault, and lay bare the dire consequences thereof: expose it roundly, and give him a proper, solemn, moral whipping — but do not attempt to castigare ridendo.

    Roundabout Papers 2006

  • In hac re si non sit instructus D. Arthurus, aut ea sit dexteritate, vt deprehenso errore eum inuenire et castigare possit timeo ne deuias faciat ambages, tempus ilium fallat, et semiperacto negotio, � gelu pr鎜ccupetur: Aiunt enim

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Chastise, as well as castigate, comes from the Latin castigare, which adds the force of -igare, or agere, “to drive,” to the purifying.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Chastise, as well as castigate, comes from the Latin castigare, which adds the force of -igare, or agere, “to drive,” to the purifying.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Chastise, as well as castigate, comes from the Latin castigare, which adds the force of -igare, or agere, “to drive,” to the purifying.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Chastise, as well as castigate, comes from the Latin castigare, which adds the force of -igare, or agere, “to drive,” to the purifying.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • [282] "Quæ autem de curialibus nugis dicta sunt, in nullo eorum, sed forte in me aut mei similibus deprehendi; et plane nimis arcta lege constringor, si meipsum et amicos castigare et emendare non licet."

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • Ubi clare ostendit, se ideo castigare corpus, non ut per eam disciplinam mereatur remissionem peccatorum, sed ut corpus habeat obnoxium et idoneum ad res spirituales et ad faciendum officium juxta vocationem suam.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Bergmann here traces out the etymological relation existing between the name of the operation and that of the animal with that of a Greek verb that forms the root of _castrum_, or camp; _casa_, or house; _castigare_, to arrange; from whence also is traced _cosmos_, the world; _kastorio_, the

    History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886

  • Point out his fault, and lay bare the dire consequences thereof: expose it roundly, and give him a proper, solemn, moral whipping -- but do not attempt to castigare ridendo.

    Roundabout Papers William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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