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CHASTISE,

1. To correct by punishing to punish to inflict pain by stripes, or in other manner, for the purpose of punishing an offender and recalling him to his duty.

I will chastise you seven times for your sins. Leviticus 26 .

2. To reduce to order or obedience to restrain to awe to repress.

The gay social sense, By decency chastisd.

3. To correct to purify by expunging faults as, to chastise a poem.
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Entry for 'Chastise'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​c/chastise.html.
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