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[ME., [ME. chastliche , chastely (chast'li), adv. chaste + -liche, -ly2.] In a chaste manner. (a) With sexual purity; purely. (6) Without obscenity; decently. (c) Without barbarisms or uncouth phrases; tastefully: as, a composition chastely written. Let the wiues keepe their husbands secrets, or else let them be chastised , and kept in house and bed, till they be better. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 257. How fine my master is! I am afraid He will chastise me. Shak ., Tempest, v. 1. Heaven is not always angry when he strikes, But most chastises those whom most he likes. Pomfret , To his Friend in Affliction. 21. To discipline; instruct; correct the errors or faults of. And so atte the begynning a man ought to lerne his doughters with good ensaumples, yeunge as dede the quene Proues of Hongrie, that faire and goodly chastised and taught her doughters, as it [is] contened in her boke. Book of the Knight of La Tour Landry , p. 2. 3t. To reduce to submi ion; tame. Thilke men chastised and temede hors firste with bridels. Trevis a, tr. of Higden's Poly chronic on, I. 187. 4. To restrain or refine by discipline; free from faults or exce es. [In this sense now chasten.] Behold the beauty of her person chastised by the innocence of her thoughts. Steele , Spectator, No. 4. The gay social sense, by decency chastised . Thomson. Syn. 1. Punish, Chasten, Chastise. To punish is primarily and chiefly to inflict pain upon, as a retribution for misdeeds, the notion of improving the offender being absent or quite subordinate. Chasten , on the other hand, implies that the reformation of the offender is the aim of the punishment inflicted. The word is not now often used of human acts it is biblical there the stenen (Heb. xii. 6); and such expre ions as "the chastening influence of sorrow" are in use. Chastise is a dignified word for corporal punishment, combining in nearly equal degrees the notions of desert and correction. a word for the providential disci IMG:content-0187.png:[blocks in formation]