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castigatory en · ADJ

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1. Serving or tending to castigate.

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castigatory · punitory · vindicatory · vindicatory · vindictive · vindictive · punitory · punitive · punishmental

castigatory en · NOUN

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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 stool 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

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