What does "castigatory" mean?

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

Castigatory

Q: What is a synonym for "castigatory"?

Common synonyms include: corrective, cucking stool, cucking stool, disciplinary, grueling, punishing.

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Definitions

Noun

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"

Adjective

1
Serving or tending to castigate.

Synonyms

All synonyms

corrective cucking stool cucking stool disciplinary grueling punishing

Example

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"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"

Related phrases

ducking stool

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