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ing restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste. My past life Hath been as continent, as chaste, as true, As I am now unhappy. Shak.

In a continent manner; chastely; moderately; temperately.

opriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying. My accuser is my 'prentice; and when I did correct him for his fault the other day, he did vow upon his knees he would be even with me. Shak.

unishing, or that which is intended to rectify or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement. Correction and instruction must both work Ere this rude beast will profit. Shak.

Deserving chastisement; punishable. [Obs.] He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. Howell.

Breach of chastity. [Obs.] Shak.

A light or unchaste woman. Sir W. Scott.

To corrupt the chastity of; to debauch; to violate. The husband murder'd and the wife defiled. Prior.

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

The daughter of Jupiter and Latona; a virgin goddess who presided 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).

Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training. Giving her the discipline of the strap. Addison.

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.

Lewdness; unchastity. Shak.

To violate the chastity of; to debauch. Dryden.

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-.

To beat; to chastise; also, to humble; to harass; to worry. [Obs.] insworth.

To beat; to chastise; to humble; to worry. [Obs.] [Written also feaze, feize, pheese.] Beau. & Fl. To feeze up, to work into a passion. [Obs.]

To beat; to strike; to chastise. [Obs.] I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him. Shak.