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nt 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.

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.

Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous. [Obs.] God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the forwardness of a young spirit. Jer. Taylor.

Judicial cognizance of an offense; chastisement; punishment. [Archaic] "Divine animadversions." Wesley.

One who animadverts; a censurer; also [Obs.], a chastiser.

n England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc.

The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.

To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.

Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism. The keenest castigation of her slanderers. W. Irving.

Capable or deserving of chastisement; punishable. Sherwood.

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.

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

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.

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

To flog or chastise with a horsewhip.