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Corrected; disciplined; refined; purified; toned down. Sir. W. Scott. Of such a finished chastened purity. Tennyson.

One who chastens.

Chastity; purity.

Capable or deserving of chastisement; punishable. Sherwood.

t or reformation; to punish, as with stripes. How fine my master is! I am afraid He will chastise me. Shak. I am glad to see the vanity or envy of the canting chemists thus discovered and chastised. Boyle.

The act of chastising; pain inflicted for punishment and correction; discipline; punishment. Shall I so much dishonor my fair stars, On equal terms to give him chastesement! Shak. I have borne chastisement; I will not offend any more. Job xxxiv. 31.

One who chastises; a punisher; a corrector. Jer. Taylor. The chastiser of the rich. Burke.

The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse. She . . . hath preserved her spotless chastity. T. Carew.

Capable of subdividing spontaneously.

To chasten. [Obs.]

Foolishly hasty. [R.]

To strike aghast; to affright. [Obs.] Ghasted by the noise I made. Full suddenly he fled. Shak.

Fit to make one aghast; dismal. [Obs.] -- Ghast"ful*ly, adv.

The state of being ghastly; a deathlike look.

Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal. Each turned his face with a ghastly pang. Coleridge. His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized. Macaulay.

Ghastliness. [Obs.] Shak.

One of a mystical sect of the Greek Church in the fourteenth century; a quietist. Brande & C.

Unchastity. [Obs.] Milton.

Too great haste.

Too hasty; precipitate; rash. -- O"ver*has"ti*ly, adv. -- O`ver*has"ti*ness, n.