Crossword-Solution: CASTIGATORY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Castigatory | a. | Punitive in order to amendment; corrective. |
| Castigatory | n. | An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “CASTIGATORY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| penalising | 6 answers |
| punitive | 6 answers |
| Retaliatory | 8 answers |
| disciplinary | 8 answers |
| Penal | 10 answers |
| Corrective. | 59 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CASTIGATORY (5)
The castigatory sermon which Fraulein Rottenmeier had held in reserve for Heidi was put off till the following day, as she felt too exhausted now after all the emotions she had gone through of irritation, anger, and fright, of which Heidi had unconsciously been the cause.
Legge's Chinese classics, where a special chapter of The Book is devoted to it: in charging his officer to prepare it, the Emperor only uses the words "revise the punishments," and the code itself is only known as the "Punishments" (of the marquess who drew it up); although it also prescribes many judicial forms, and lays down precepts which are by no means all castigatory.
Next I tried to take off the castigatory appearance, by inserting the bristles in a kind of handle; but then it looked as if the poor woman had been engaged in the capacities of housemaid and child-keeper at once, and, fatigued with her double duty, had sat down on the wine-cooler, with the broom in one hand, and the bairn in the other.
For the rest, a shrewd handsome woman must know how to tame a rake, and every one will respect the female slipper when it is wielded merely for a man's benefit." "God deliver me from such a castigatory office; I should soon sink under it." --"Or if you long for a great fortune, you have but to give the sign: I have observed how Christopher Friend, whom you have drawn hither, circles about you at a distance.
And that the rascal Blaise, and the scoundrel Meyern may daily lay castigatory hands upon each other, as relations, so that there may at all events always be one to punish the other." Here the notary jumped up, declared it took his breath away, and went to the window to get a little air.