different between inveigh vs castigate

English

Etymology

From Latin inveh? (“bring in, carry in”), from in- + veh? (“carry”). Compare vehicle, invective.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?n?ve?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Verb

inveigh (third-person singular simple present inveighs, present participle inveighing, simple past and past participle inveighed)

1. (intransitive, with against or occasionally about, formerly also with on, at, upon) To complain loudly, to give voice to one's censure or criticism [from 16th c.]
   • 1860, William Cullen Bryant, letter, 14 Sep 1860:

     I saw Mr. Cairns yesterday. He inveighed at great length at what he called Mr. Willis's neglect of his children, saying he had just discovered that they got no whortleberries and no fish, and that he was just beginning to send them those things.

   • 1989, Jack Vance, Madouc:

     Noblemen loyal to King Milo inveighed upon him, until at last he sent off dispatches to King Audry and King Aillas, alerting them to the peculiar rash of forays, raids and provocations current along the Lyonesse border.

   • 1999, Will Hutton, The Guardian, 26 Sep 1999:

     Only last week, three aggressively written pamphlets crossed my desk inveighing against the euro.

   • 2011, Elizabeth Drew, "What were they thinking?", New York Review of Books, 18 Aug 2011:

     After the President, in a press conference in late June, inveighed against tax breaks for corporate jets, the industry quickly insisted that such a change would cost jobs.

   • 2016, Patrick Healy and Jonathan Martin, The New York Times, 9 Feb 2016:

     He declared his independence from a reviled status quo by inveighing in blunt and occasionally vulgar terms about “stupid” leaders weakening America.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To draw in or away; to entice, inveigle. [17th–19th c.]
   • c. 1680, Samuel Butler, Genuine Remains:

     He is a Spirit, that inveighs away a Man from himself, undertakes great Matters for him, and after fells him for a Slave.

Derived terms

• inveigher
• inveighing

Translations

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