Bible Dictionaries
Chastise
King James Dictionary
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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