different between teach vs chastise

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti?t??/
• Rhymes: -i?t?

Etymology 1

From Middle English techen, from Old English t??an (“to show, declare, demonstrate; teach, instruct, train; assign, prescribe, direct; warn; persuade”), from Proto-West Germanic *taikijan, from Proto-Germanic *taikijan? (“to show”), from Proto-Indo-European *dey?- (“to show”). Cognate with Scots tech, teich (“to teach”), German zeigen (“to show, point out”), zeihen (“accuse, blame”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (gateihan, “to announce, declare, tell, show, display”), Latin d?c? (“speak, say, tell”), Ancient Greek ???????? (deíknumi, “show, point out, explain, teach”). More at token.

Verb

teach (third-person singular simple present teaches, present participle teaching, simple past and past participle taught)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.
   • c1450, Mandeville's Travels?

     Blessed God of might (the) most.. teach us the right way unto that bliss that lasteth aye.

   • c1460, Cursor Mundi?

     Till thy sweet sun uprose, thou keptest all our lay, how we should keep our belief there taught'st thou us the way.
2. (ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.

   Synonyms: educate, instruct

3. (intransitive) To pass on knowledge, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.

   Antonym: learn

4. (ditransitive) To cause to learn or understand.
5. (ditransitive) To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

References

• The Middle English Dictionary
• NED

Etymology 2

Clipping of teacher

Noun

teach (plural teaches)

1. (informal, usually as a term of address) teacher

Anagrams

• 'tache, Tache, Taché, Tâche, chate, cheat, he-cat, tache, theca

Irish

Alternative forms

• tigh dative; has replaced the nominative in Munster Irish
• toigh (Ulster) dative; replaced the nominative in East Ulster.

Etymology

From Old Irish tech, from Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *tegos (“cover, roof”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?ax/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /t?æ?x/

Noun

teach m (genitive singular tí, nominative plural tithe)

1. house

Declension

• Alternative genitive singular: tighe, toighe
• Alternative dative singular: toigh
• Alternative plural: tithí (Ulster)

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "teach" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “tea?” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 724.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tech, teg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “teach” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “teach” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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Etymology

From Middle English techen, from Old English t??an, from Proto-West Germanic *taikijan.

Verb

teach (simple past teigkt or teight)

1. to hand or give

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Alternative forms

• chastize (archaic in British English and rare in American English)

Etymology

From Old French chastier, from Latin castigo. See also the doublets chasten and castigate and cf. also chaste.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t?æ?sta?z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?æsta?z/, /t?æ?sta?z/
• Rhymes: -a?z

Verb

chastise (third-person singular simple present chastises, present participle chastising, simple past and past participle chastised)

1. To punish (someone), especially by corporal punishment.
   • 1809, Flavius Josephus, The first eleven books of the Antiquities of the Jews, with a table of the Jewish coins, weights and measures, page 402:

     and if his father had chastised them with whips, they must expect that he would do it with scorpions.

   • 2018, Nyx Smith, Shadowrun Legends: Striper Assassin, Catalyst Game Labs

     “There is a man who must be chastised,” she says softly, lightly. “Chastised in a physical way. It should not be difficult. Not for you.”

2. To castigate; to severely scold or censure (someone).
3. To lightly criticize or correct (someone).
   • 2002, Eric Porter, What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists, Univ of California Press (?ISBN), page 50:

     While Ellington voiced praise and respect for Benny Goodman and some white bandleaders, he gently chastised others for profiting from “musical-simplification to the 'nth' degree” and “reach[ing] a pleasing musical middle.”

   • 2011, Patricia Colton, The Window Blind, AuthorHouse (?ISBN), page 496:

     “You're not insensitive,” she lightly chastised. “I love you.” “Love you too.”

   • 2017, Ava Stone, A Scandalous Ruse:

     “Greg,” she lightly chastised. “You're not supposed to move your lips.” “Yes, I know. I'm a horrible subject. But do answer the question, Bella.”

   • 2019, Eliza Ellis, Hers to Kiss, Eliza Ellis

     “You could've trusted me,” Pete gently chastised. “I can handle it.” He sat on the edge of her bed. “I was afraid to, honey. I know how stressed you've been with the camp […] ”

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:reprehend

Translations

See also

• punish
• castigate