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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CASTIGATORY

a.Tending to correction; corrective; punitive.

 

CASTIGATORY

n.An engine formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds, called also a ducking stool, or trebucket.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CASTIGATORY

Cas `ti *ga *to *ry, a. Etym: [L. castigatorius.]

 

Defn: Punitive in order to amendment; corrective.

 

CASTIGATORY

CASTIGATORY Cas "ti *ga *to *ry, n.

 

Defn: An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket. Blacktone.