castigatory

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English

Adjective

castigatory (comparative more castigatory, superlative most castigatory)

  1. Serving or tending to castigate.

Noun

castigatory (plural castigatories)

  1. (obsolete) An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; the ducking stool or trebucket.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “castigatory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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