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Definitions of castigates in various dictionaries:
verb - censure severely
verb - inflict severe punishment on
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Dresses down |
Gives a poor review when stage act is terrible |
Slates one's put round door on shed |
Players are outside entrance getting rebukes |
Last Seen in these Crosswords & Puzzles |
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May 9 2018 The Times - Cryptic |
Apr 14 2007 New York Times |
Jan 29 2007 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword |
Dec 21 2002 The Times - Cryptic |
May 30 2002 The Telegraph - Cryptic |
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Third-person singular simple present indicative form of castigate. |
reprimand (someone) severely. |
Reprimand (someone) severely. |
Castigates might refer to |
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Castigation (from the Latin castigatio) or chastisement (via the French châtiment) is the infliction of severe (moral or corporal) punishment. One who administers a castigation is a castigator or chastiser. * In earlier times, castigation specifically meant restoring one to a religiously pure state, called chastity. In ancient Rome, it was also a term for the magistrate called a censor (in the original sense, rather than the later politicized evolution), who castigated in the name of the pagan state religion but with the authority of the 'pious' state. * In Christian times, this terminology was adopted but roughly restricted to the physical sphere: chastity became a matter of approved sexual conduct, castigation usually meaning physical punishment, either as a form of penance, as a voluntary pious exercise (see mortification of the flesh) or as educational or other coercion, while the use for other (e.g. verbal) punishments (and criticism etc.) is now often perceived as metaphorical. * S |