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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)

  1. (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.
  2. (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.
  3. (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

  1. feminine plural of castigato

Verb

castigate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of castigare
  2. second-person plural imperative of castigare
  3. feminine plural of castigato

Latin

Verb

cast?g?te

  1. 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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subdue

English

Etymology

From Middle English subdewen, subduen, sodewen, from Old French souduire, from Latin subd?c? (to draw away), perhaps influenced by subd? (to subdue, subject).

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /s?b?du/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /s?b?dju?/, /s?b?d?u?/, /s?b-/
  • Rhymes: -u?
  • Hyphenation: sub?due

Verb

subdue (third-person singular simple present subdues, present participle subduing, simple past and past participle subdued)

  1. To overcome, quieten, or bring under control.
  2. To bring (a country) under control by force.

Synonyms

  • underbring

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