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In a continent manner; chastely; moderately; temperately.

A light or unchaste woman. Sir W. Scott.

ally; pollution; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness. Defilements of the flesh. Hopkins. The chaste can not rake into such filth without danger of defilement. Addison.

d over hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified with the Greek goddess Artemis. And chaste Diana haunts the forest shade. Pope. Diana monkey (Zoöl.), a handsome, white-bearded monkey of West Africa (Cercopithecus Diana).

Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd. [Obs.] Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars. Pope. Speak no foul or dishonest words before them [the women]. Sir T. North.

ke; dissatisfaction; disfavor; indignation. O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. Ps. vi. 1. Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure. Milton.

A clasp in the arms; embrace. Dear though chaste embracements. Sir P. Sidney.

o be, or to make, able, or feeble; and sometimes merely gives an intensive force, as in enchasten. See In-.

rom virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; also, unchaste; -- often applied to fallen women. Man is frail, and prone to evil. Jer. Taylor.

Characteristic of a goat; goatlike. Give your chaste body up to the embraces Of goatish lust. Massinger. -- Goat"ish*ly, adv. -- Goat"ish*ness, n.

Chaste; faithfuk; virtuous. Wives may be merry, and yet honest too. Shak.

Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or ideas. "Impure desires." Cowper.

g the passions or appetites, particularly the sexual appetite; indulging unlawful lust; unchaste; lewd.

Not corrupted, defiled, or profaned; chaste; pure. "Inviolate truth." Denham. There chaste Alceste lives inviolate. Spenser.

Unchaste; -- applied to a woman. L'Estrange.

One who remains or keeps in a place or position. Discreet; chaste; keepers at home. Titus ii. 5.

To bathe; to wash one's self. In her chaste current oft the goddess laves. Pope.

Wanton; unchaste; as, a woman of light character. A light wife doth make a heavy husband. Shak.

Not chastely; wantonly. Swift.

Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman. Loose ladies in delight. Spenser.