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castigate
English
Etymology
Early 17th cent., borrowed from Latin cast?g?tus, past participle of cast?g? (“I reprove”), from castus (“pure, chaste”), from Proto-Indo-European *kesa (“cut”). Doublet of chastise, taken through Old French. See also chaste.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /?kæs.t?.?e?t/, /?kæs.t?.?e?t/
Verb
castigate (third-person singular simple present castigates, present participle castigating, simple past and past participle castigated)
- (transitive, formal) To punish or reprimand someone severely.
- 1999, Robert P. Gordon, I & II Samuel: A Commentary, Zondervan, p. 264:
- Perhaps disarmed by his own scandalous behaviour with Bathsheba, he was in no position to castigate his son for a similar fault.
- 1999, Robert P. Gordon, I & II Samuel: A Commentary, Zondervan, p. 264:
- (transitive, formal) To execrate or condemn something in a harsh manner, especially by public criticism.
- 2016, Halil Berktay, Suraiya Faroqhi, New Approaches to State and Peasant in Ottoman History, Routledge, p. 150:
- But despite all this, for Barkan, the universalist notion of an 'Ottoman feudalism' was anathema: he castigated this idea as the concentrated expression of the anti-Ottomanism of the Kemalist Enlightenment.
- 2001, Klaus R. Scherer, Angela Schorr, Tom Johnstone, Appraisal Processes in Emotion: Theory, Methods, Research, Oxford University Press, p. 59:
- Lewis should have castigated the reasoning employed rather than the emotion, which offers no clue as to which side of the argument a person will adopt.
- 2012, James King, Under Foreign Eyes: Western Cinematic Adaptations of Postwar Japan, John Hunt Publishing, p. 1:
- From the outset, this issue becomes an often double-edged sword wherein Japan is both valorized and castigated.
- 2016, Halil Berktay, Suraiya Faroqhi, New Approaches to State and Peasant in Ottoman History, Routledge, p. 150:
- (transitive, rare) To revise or make corrections to a publication.
Synonyms
- (to punish severely): chastise, punish, rebuke, reprimand
- (to criticize severely): condemn, lambaste
- (to revise a publication): correct, revise
- See also Thesaurus:reprehend
Translations
References
Italian
Adjective
castigate
- feminine plural of castigato
Verb
castigate
- second-person plural present indicative of castigare
- second-person plural imperative of castigare
- feminine plural of castigato
Latin
Verb
cast?g?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of cast?g?
References
- castigate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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afflict
English
Etymology
From Old French aflicter, from Latin afflictare (“to damage, harass, torment”), frequentative of affligere (“to dash down, overthrow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??fl?kt/
- Rhymes: -?kt
- Hyphenation: af?flict
Verb
afflict (third-person singular simple present afflicts, present participle afflicting, simple past and past participle afflicted)
- (transitive) To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
- (obsolete) To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
- (obsolete) To make low or humble.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth.
Related terms
- affliction
- afflictive
Translations
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??fl?k(t)/
Verb
afflict (third-person singular present afflicts, present participle afflictin, past afflictit, past participle afflictit)
- to afflict
References
- Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
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