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castigatory

castigatory adjective: serving or tending to castigate.

Adjective

castigatory (comparative more castigatory, superlative most castigatory)

  1. Serving or tending to castigate.

Noun

castigatory (plural castigatories)

  1. (obsolete) An instrument formerly used to punish and correct women whose behavior was considered unseemly; the ducking stool or trebucket.
    • For which offence she may be indicted; and , if convicted , shall be sentenced to be placed in a certain engine of correction called the trebucket , castigatory, or ducking stool1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC

Synonyms of castigatory

All synonyms of castigatory

Forms of castigatory

Adjective
comparativemore castigatory
superlativemost castigatory
Noun
pluralcastigatories

Questions about castigatory

What does castigatory mean?
Castigatory means serving or tending to castigate.
What part of speech is castigatory?
Castigatory can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near castigatory in the dictionary

  1. castigations
  2. castigative
  3. castigator
  4. castigatories
  5. castigators
  6. castigatory
  7. Castigliano's method
  8. Castiglione
  9. Castigliones
  10. Castile
  11. Castile and León

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