castigatory

adj

Definitions

  1. Serving or tending to castigate.

  2. An instrument formerly used to punish and correct women whose behavior was considered…

    An 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

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