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Castigatory

adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Serving or tending to castigate.
Noun
  1. 1
    An instrument formerly used to punish and correct women whose behavior was considered unseemly; the ducking stool or trebucket. obsolete

    "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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