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To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows.

den. I should have forced thee soon wish other arms. Milton. To force a spotless virgin's chastity. Shak.

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.

Chastity; modesty. Chaucer. To lay . . . siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife. Shak.

ue; nobleness; specif., in men, integrity; uprightness; trustworthness; in women, purity; chastity. If she have forgot Honor and virtue. Shak. Godlike erect, with native honor clad. Milton.

To flog or chastise with a horsewhip.

The Hesychasts, Mystics, and Quietists;

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.

e); not susceptible of being profaned or corrupted; sacred; holy; as, inviolable honor or chastity; an inviolable shrine. He tried a third, a tough, well-chosen spear, The inviolable body stood sincere. Dryden.

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

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

s of the other, as the stung Are of the adder. Shak. It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise; which she will never do if she find him jealous. Bacon.

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

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

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.