a. (sb.) [f. L. castīgātōrius, f. castīgātor: see prec. and -ORY.]
A. adj. Pertaining to a castigator or to castigation; chastising, corrective, punitive.
1613. T. Godwin, Rom. Antiq. (1625), 187. The corporall punishments are either … Capitall … or Castigatory, such corrections as serued for the humbling and reforming of the offender.
1675. Baxter, Cath. Theol., I. l. 108. The sin it self is castigatory, and hath such like effects.
1866. Pall Mall Gaz., 3 March, 11. The castigatory measures in which our soldiers and sailors … were subsequently employed.
† B. sb. An instrument of chastisement. Obs.
c. 1640. J. Smyth, Lives Berkeleys (1883), I. 201. Stocks, cage, tumbrell, pillory, Cuckingstoole, and other Juditialls and castigatories.
1769. Blackstone, Comm., IV. xiii. (R.). A certain engine of correction called the trebucket, castigatory, or cucking stool.
