Definition of Chastised

1. Verb. (past of chastise) ¹

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Definition of Chastised

1. chastise [v] - See also: chastise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chastised

chastened
chastener
chasteners
chasteness
chastenesses
chastenest
chasteneth
chastening
chasteningly
chastens
chaster
chastest
chasting
chastise
chastised
chastiser
chastisers
chastises
chastisest
chastiseth
chastising
chastities
chastity belts
chastity cage
chastity cages

Literary usage of Chastised

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"Then I saw in my dream, that he commanded them to lie down ; which when they did, he chastised them sore, to teach them the good way wherein they should ..."

2. Scotland by Walter Scott, Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1899)
"CHAPTER XXX Commencement of the Civil War—English Invasion—The Borderers chastised—The House of Hamilton almost ruined—Dumbarton Castle taken—Scotland ..."

3. Sermons on Important Subjects by Samuel Davies, Albert Barnes, Thomas Gibbons (1841)
"have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thau hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, ..."

4. Sermons by Samuel Davies, Samuel Finley, William Buell Sprague (1864)
"I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus ; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke ; turn thou me, ..."

5. The Orbis Pictus of John Amos Comenius by Johann Amos Comenius (1887)
"As it beginneth to grow older, it is accustomed to Piety, 12. and Labour, 13. and is chastised, 14. if it be not dutiful. Children owe to Parents Reverence ..."

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