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The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement. South. Lashing out, a striking out; also, extravagance.

hat ancient doctrine of nemesis who keeps watch in the universe, and lets no offense go unchastised. Emerson.

Punishment; chastisement. [R.]

A direct and pointed reproof; a reprimand; also, chastisement; punishment. For thy sake I have suffered rebuke. Jer. xv. 15. Why bear you these rebukes and answer not Shak.

Impatient under coercion, chastisement, or opposition; refractory.

An instrument of punishment or correction; figuratively, chastisement. He that spareth his rod hateth his son. Prov. xiii. 24.

A painful scourge. My father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. 1 Kings xii. 11.

To punish with severity; to chastise; to afflict, as for sins or faults, and with the purpose of correction. Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Heb. xii. 6.

In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.

1st Strain. Because heretics have a strain of madness, he applied her with some corporal chastisements. Hayward.

To beat or chastise with a strap.

To beat soundly; to whip; to chastise; to punish. I had swinged him soundly. Shak. And swinges his own vices in his son. C. Dryden.