castigatory

comparative more castigatory · superlative most castigatory

1. Serving or tending to castigate.

   Synonyms: punitory, vindicatory, vindictive, punishmental, punitive, punitory, vindicatory, vindictive

plural castigatories

1. obsoleteAn instrument formerly used to punish and correct women whose behavior was considered unseemly; the ducking stool or trebucket.

   For which offence she may be indicted; and , if convicted , shall be sentenced to be placed in a certain engine of correction called the trebucket , castigatory, or ducking stool

   1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC