castigate
English
Etymology
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(deprecated template usage) Early 17th cent., borrowed from Latin castīgātus, past participle of castīgō (“I reprove”), from castus (“pure, chaste”), from Proto-Indo-European *kesa (“cut”)[1][2]. Doublet of chastise, taken through Old French. See also chaste.
Pronunciation
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Verb
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- (transitive, formal) To punish or reprimand someone severely.
- 1999, Robert P. Gordon, I & II Samuel: A Commentary, Zondervan, p. 264:
- Perhaps disarmed by his own scandalous behaviour with Bathsheba, he was in no position to castigate his son for a similar fault.
- 1999, Robert P. Gordon, I & II Samuel: A Commentary, Zondervan, p. 264:
- (transitive, formal) To execrate or condemn something in a harsh manner, especially by public criticism.
- 1977, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, Penguin Classics, p. 261:
- The curse of avarice and cupidity / Is all my sermon, for it frees the pelf. / Out come the pence, and specially for myself, / For my exclusive purpose is to win / And not at all to castigate their sin.
- 2016, Halil Berktay, Suraiya Faroqhi, New Approaches to State and Peasant in Ottoman History, Routledge, p. 150:
- But despite all this, for Barkan, the universalist notion of an 'Ottoman feudalism' was anathema: he castigated this idea as the concentrated expression of the anti-Ottomanism of the Kemalist Enlightenment.
- 2001, Klaus R. Scherer, Angela Schorr, Tom Johnstone, Appraisal Processes in Emotion: Theory, Methods, Research, Oxford University Press, p. 59:
- Lewis should have castigated the reasoning employed rather than the emotion, which offers no clue as to which side of the argument a person will adopt.
- 2012, James King, Under Foreign Eyes: Western Cinematic Adaptations of Postwar Japan, John Hunt Publishing, p. 1:
- From the outset, this issue becomes an often double-edged sword wherein Japan is both valorized and castigated.
- 1977, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, Penguin Classics, p. 261:
- (transitive, rare) To revise or make corrections to a publication.
Synonyms
- (to punish severely): chastise, punish, rebuke, reprimand
- (to criticize severely): condemn, lambaste
- (to revise a publication): correct, revise
- See also Thesaurus:reprehend
Translations
to punish or reprimand someone severely
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to criticize something severely
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to revise a publication
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References
Italian
Adjective
castigate
Verb
castigate
- second-person plural present indicative of castigare
- second-person plural imperative of castigare
- feminine plural of castigato
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) castīgāte
References
- “castigate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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