Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To inflict severe punishment on. See Synonyms at punish.
- v. To criticize severely.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To chastise; punish by stripes; correct or punish, in general.
- To subject to a severe and critical scrutiny; criticize for the purpose of correcting; emend: as, to castigate the text of an author.
Wiktionary
- v. To punish severely; to criticize severely; to reprimand severely.
- v. To revise or make corrections to a publication.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.
- v. obsolete To emend; to correct.
WordNet 3.0
- v. censure severely
- v. inflict severe punishment on
Etymologies
- Early 17th cent., from Latin castīgātus, past participle of castīgō ("I reprove"), from castus ("pure, chaste"), from Proto-Indo-European *kesa (“cut”) . (Wiktionary)
- Latin castīgāre, castīgāt-, from castus, pure; see kes- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In your latest, you again castigate Reichert and give a little praise to Darcy, but very little substance.”
“Headmaster Fuess was no doubt familiar with a type of teacher who is far rarer now than during the era in which he taught, and which he describes here in a passage featuring the word castigate (KA stuh gayt), a harsh-sounding word that comes from the same Latin root as chastise, and means to criticize or punish severely, especially by harsh public criticism.”
“Chastise, as well as castigate, comes from the Latin castigare, which adds the force of -igare, or agere, “to drive,” to the purifying.”
“When you hear these folks, it doesn't matter what side of the debate they're on who are willing to kind of castigate somebody who may have a good idea, stand up and let them have it.”
“He said the ANC regarded the support expressed by local clergymen as "a critical solidarity" and expected church leaders to "castigate" the party from the pulpit if it proved dishonest or failed to show respect for human dignity.”
“You should not castigate Lara Logan because she's an "attractive blonde female reporter.”
The Huffington Post: Shannon Galpin: What's Blonde Got to Do With It?
“You should not castigate Lara Logan because she s an attractive blonde female reporter.”
The Huffington Post: Shannon Galpin: What's Blonde Got to Do With It?
“In 2007, he had praised the role of a government-sponsored enterprise like Freddie only to castigate congressional Democrats for their support of the same firm.”
“Regarding your editorial "Mitt Romney's 15%" Jan. 18: I'm no fan of Mr. Romney, but it's fairly ridiculous for the media to castigate him for paying as low a federal income-tax rate as possible.”
“Because some people actually care to design and plan for their neighborhoods, which is the purpose of neighborhood planning, and object to the plan coming from essentially the Nickels administration, you castigate them as nimbys.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘castigate’.
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Muse's tacet ,to learn
Music brings silence's to raging thoughts and temperament , calm, as it is our object of definite purpose.
tacet, cadence, tempo, treble clef, penultimate, lexicon, origin, orchestra, kantele, magus, eros, coalesce and 248 more...
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wk24
unwarranted, judicious, capricious, hegemonic, ephemeral, specious, obdurate, inherent, inchoate, artifact, spurious, obsequious and 30 more...
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1100
abound, technology, branch of knowled..., prognosticate, automaton, matron, an older married ..., realm, special field of ..., kingdom, annals, historical records and 981 more...
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Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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501
Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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From reading
Collected from reading
venerate, reprobate, reticent, adoration, ethereal, ephemeral, equivocal, contumacious, heinous, solicitous, agnostic, aberration and 335 more...
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501
Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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(1st_wk_150)-Dec_5_2012
voracious, indiscriminate, eminent, steeped, replete, abound, technology, prognosticate, automaton, matron, paradox, realm and 297 more...
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501
Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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Used
halcyon, ineluctable, inspissated, incarnadine, askance, demur, saltation, requisite, effusive, specious, liminality, indomitable and 114 more...
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Funny, yuck, or funny yuck
galactorrhea, trope, salacious, ignominious, bucolic, vivacious, mollify, titillate, castigate, panjandrum, zany
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06-13 GRE list
churlish, unswear, abnegate, abjure, state, indemnification, adumbrated, reny, abash, recondite, rescission, esoteric and 260 more...
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good to know
sardonic, concordance, acerbic, onerous, saccharine, muliebrity, fugacious, evanescent, gambit, capricious, liaison, fallacious and 18 more...
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vocab 3
predilection, vagrant, stint, insinuate, incendiary, heedless, nonchalant, writhe, queasy, incandescest, hauteur, castigate and 24 more...
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