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A species of Vitex (V. agnus castus); the chaste tree. Loudon. And wreaths of agnus castus others bore. Dryden.

Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous. [Obs.] God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the forwardness of a young spirit. Jer. Taylor.

Judicial cognizance of an offense; chastisement; punishment. [Archaic] "Divine animadversions." Wesley.

One who animadverts; a censurer; also [Obs.], a chastiser.

Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language. "The pert style of the pit bawdry." Steele.

Obscene; filthy; unchaste. "A bawdy story." Burke.

n England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc.

The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.

To promise; to vow. Behight by vow unto the chaste Minerve. Surrey.

To corrupt with regard to chastity; to make a whore of. J. Fletcher.

A stain; a spot; a smooch. Defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks of lust. Rowley. Black and white, writing or print; as, I must have that statement in black and white. -- Blue black, a pigment of a blue black color. -- Ivory black, a fine kind of animal charcoal prepared by calcining ivory or bones. Wh…

licious misrepresentation; slander; detraction. "Infamouse calumnies." Motley. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Shak.

fe. -- Secular canoness, one allowed to hold private property, and bound only by vows of chastity and obedience so long as she chose to remain in the chapter.

To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.

Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism. The keenest castigation of her slanderers. W. Irving.

A choir of singers, or an orchastra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.

Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style. Classical, provincial, and national synods. Macaulay. Classicals orders. (Arch.) See under Order.

To lament; to bewail. [Obs.] They might the grievance inwardly complain. Daniel. By chaste Lucrece's soul that late complain'd Her wrongs to us. Shak.

To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity. But if they can not contain, let them marry. 1 Cor. vii. 9.

he unmarried and widows] have not continency, let them marry. 1 Cor. vii. 9 (Rev. Ver. ). Chastity is either abstinence or continence: abstinence is that of virgins or widows; continence, that of married persons. Jer. Taylor.