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A certain marquis had been thrashed with a walking-stick, but showed no disposition to take vengeance on his castigator.
WORD ORIGIN
c.1600, from Latin castigatus, past participle of castigare "to correct, set right; purify; chastise, punish," from castus "pure" (see caste) + agere "to do" (see act (n.)). The notion behind the word is "make someone pure by correcting or reproving him."
Related: Castigated; castigating; castigator; castigatory.
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