Castigatory

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Serving to castigate; tending to correction; corrective; punitive.
  • noun. pl. castigatories (-riz). Something that serves to castigate; specifically, an apparatus formerly used in punishing scolds. Also called ducking-stool and trebucket.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Punitive in order to amendment; corrective.
  • noun. An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Serving or tending to castigate.
  • noun. An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; the ducking stool or trebucket.
    • Word Usage
    "On the contrary, besides his castigatory and carping toungue, he does not seem to offer any constructive criticism for the economic doldrums we are in."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    corrective  punitive  
    variant
    ducking stool  trebucket  
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