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Definition of Castigates
1. castigate [v] - See also: castigate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Castigates
Literary usage of Castigates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"Herodotus castigates Hecataeus, Thucydides castigates Herodotus and Hellanicus.
How far is Thucydides himself invulnerable ? ..."
2. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"Herodotus castigates Hecataeus, Thucydides castigates Herodotus and Hellanicus.
How far is Thucydides himself invulnerable ? ..."
3. Baptism: With Reference to Its Import and Modes by Edward Beecher (1849)
"... that he first soundly castigates Dr. Miller and Mr. Hall, because they had
not the sense to see that sprinklings could not, by any possibility, ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"... Bochner wisely castigates those who explain the latter by reference to Newton's
influence and his failures without being aware that the situation in ..."
5. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1865)
"How he castigates Donizetti's love of money and his sloth ! how his whip scourges
the immorality of the French opera, ..."
6. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1903)
"The author of "Dodo," EF Benson, again castigates the "smart" set of London
in "Scarlet and Hyssop." "The Cat's Paw" is one of Mrs. Bertha M. Croker's ..."
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