“castigatory”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

castigatory

释义

castigatory, a. (n.)|ˈkæstɪgətərɪ|
[f. L. castīgātōrius, f. castīgātor: see prec. and -ory.]
A. adj. Pertaining to a castigator or to castigation; chastising, corrective, punitive.
1613T. Godwin Rom. Antiq. (1625) 187 The corporall punishments are either..Capitall..or Castigatory, such corrections as serued for the humbling and reforming of the offender.1675Baxter Cath. Theol. i. l. 108 The sin itself is castigatory, and hath such like effects.1866Pall Mall G. 3 Mar. 11 The castigatory measures in which our soldiers and sailors..were subsequently employed.
†B. n. An instrument of chastisement. Obs.
c1640J. Smyth Lives Berkeleys (1883) I. 201 Stocks, cage, tumbrell, pillory, Cuckingstoole, and other Juditialls and castigatories.1769Blackstone Comm. iv. xiii. (R.) A certain engine of correction called the trebucket, castigatory, or cucking stool.

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