castigate
pronunciation
How to pronounce castigate in British English:
UK [ˈkæstɪɡeɪt]
How to pronounce castigate in American English:
US [ˈkæstɪɡeɪt]
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- Verb:
- censure severely
- inflict severe punishment on
Word Origin
- castigate (v.)
- c. 1600, from Latin castigatus, past participle of castigare "to correct, set right; purify; chastise, punish," from castus "pure" (see caste) + agere "to do" (see act (n.)). The notion behind the word is "make someone pure by correcting or reproving him."If thou didst put this soure cold habit on To castigate thy pride, 'twere well. [Shakespeare, "Timon" IV.iii (1607)] Related: Castigated; castigating; castigator; castigatory.
Example
- 1. The principal castigate the student who have insult their teacher .
- 2. Others castigate it for mercantilism .
- 3. Young chinese often seize any opportunity to castigate the japanese , whom they see as insufficiently contrite for the atrocities of the second world war .
- 4. Why do you castigate sex by linking it up with the emptiness of our lives ?
- 5. And the more used democratic activists feel , the less likely they are to rush to the polls to castigate the republicans .