castigate

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IN CLOSING, my humble recommendation to Pastor Julen and all of those who would lecture, castigate, denounce, and desert the SBC and the BSCNC is simply this: When ya'll get your PRACTICE and POSITION on women in ministry consistent, THEN you can come and tell others why and how to do it!

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  1. transitive verb To inflict severe punishment on. See Synonyms at punish.
  2. transitive verb To criticize severely.

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  • IN CLOSING, my humble recommendation to Pastor Julen and all of those who would lecture, castigate, denounce, and desert the SBC and the BSCNC is simply this: When ya'll get your PRACTICE and POSITION on women in ministry consistent, THEN you can come and tell others why and how to do it! —  Biblical Recorder
  • "Don't castigate, me that is the erroneous report in the media, send them a message."
  • I just listened to yet another economic advisor to Barack Obama castigate the Bush economic plan by comparing economic performance between the nineties and the oughts. —  UNCoRRELATED
  • Rodriguez 'first "truth" is to castigate the McCain campaign for going on the assault against the anti-McCain media. —  MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory
  • Others castigate the paucity of the US ground temperature data set used to support the hypothesis, and declare that the unambiguous warming trend from the mid-part of the 20th Century has ceased. —  The Register
 

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  1. Latin castīgāre, castīgāt-, from castus, pure; see kes- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin castigatus, past participle of castigare, purify, correct, chastise, from castus, pure (later English chaste), + agere, do, make; cf. purgare (later English purge), from purus, pure, + agere. Older English forms from castigare are chasten and chastise, q. v.
 

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/ˈkæstɪgeɪt/
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