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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.

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

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.

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

Capable or deserving of chastisement; punishable. Sherwood.

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.

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

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.

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