castigatory

adj, noun — 2 senses

adj

Serving or tending to castigate.

noun

Obsolete 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 stool1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

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