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See: calumnious, disciplinary, pejorative, penal, punitive

CASTIGATORY, punishments. An engine used to punish women who have been convicted of being common scolds it is sometimes called the trebucket, tumbrel, ducking stool, or cucking stool. This barbarous punishment has perhaps never been inflicted in the United States. 12 S. & It. 225. Vide Common Scold.

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calumnious corrective pejorative penal punitive			In Jerome's highly castigatory remarks (which ironically fail to acknowledge that his condition is the ramification of his own doing, i. Towards an Aesthetic of Transgression: Ann Allen Shockley's "Loving ... by Melancon, Trimiko C. / African American Review If we're defending the principle that human life should not be touched, it should not be done in a punitive, castigatory or burn-in-hell way," said Italian senator and Opus Dei member Paola Binetti. Polish Bishops, Cardinal Trujillo come under fire for overblown ... by Conscience In the Calvinistic framework of the poem his voice, unlike that of Whitman, is castigatory and devoid of compassion. From Very to Whitman: the shaping of Emerson's Poet by Zapedowska, Magdalena / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies			cast blame upon cast dishonor upon cast doubt cast doubt upon cast down cast eyes on cast forth cast into prison cast light on cast light upon cast loose cast lots cast off cast out cast overboard cast reflection upon cast reproach upon cast shame upon cast the majority of ballots for castaway caste castigate castigating castigatio castigation castigatory casting away casting of ballots casting out Casting vote castoff casual Casual ejector casualness casualties casualty casualty loss casuistic casuistical casuistry Casuproviso casus Casus Belli casus foederis Casus foedoris Casus fortuitus Casus fortuitus non est sperandus Casus omissus catachresis cataclysm cataclysmal			Casterton Business and Enterprise College Castes Castes Castes Castes Castex Racing Department Castex, Raoul Victor Patrice CASTF CASTFOREM CASTFOREM-DIS Casti Casti, Giambattista CASTIE castigate castigate castigated castigated castigates castigates castigating castigating castigatio castigation castigation castigations castigations castigator castigator castigators castigators castigatory Castigliano's method Castigliano's principle Castigliano's Theorem Castiglion Castiglion Castiglionchio, Lapo da Castiglione Castiglione Castiglione delle Stiviere Castiglione delle Stiviere Castiglione di Forlì Castiglione di Forlì Castiglione, Achille Castiglione, Baldassare Castiglione, Baldassare Castiglione, Baldassare, Conte Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglioni, Niccolò Castiglionia Castiglionia castigophobia Castile Castile Castile Castile La Mancha castile soap castile soap Castile-La Mancha Castile-La Mancha

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