Crossword-Solution: CASTIGATE 9 letters, 67 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Its declared purpose was “simply to instruct the young, reform the old, correct the town, and castigate the age.” In manner and purpose it was an imitation of the “Spectator” and the “Citizen of the World,” and it must share the fate of all imitations; but its wit was not borrowed, and its humor was to some extent original; and so perfectly was it adapted to local conditions that it may be profitably read to-day as a not untrue reflection of the manners and spirit of the time and city.

And so you were going to castigate him?" "Look!" and Philip showed him the horsewhip; "I've been carrying this thing about all day,--I wish I could drop it in the streets; but if I did, some one would be sure to pick it up and return it to me." "If it were a purse containing bank-notes you could drop it with the positive certainty of never seeing it again," laughed Beau.

Fool as he must have been to go and commit himself to marriage with a girl of whom he knew nothing or little, the assumption of pride belonged to the order of impudent disguises intolerable to behold and not, in a modern manner, castigate.

For one penny, every morning, even if you are an Englishman in Paris, a daily newspaper will tell you what to think and castigate you if you think otherwise.

Dryden sided with the later party and, in a kind of allegory of the Bible story of Absalom's revolt against David, wrote "Absalom and Achitophel" to glorify the Tories and to castigate the Whigs.