castigatory

adj 1noun 1

Definitions

adj

1

Serving or tending to castigate.

noun

1

An instrument formerly used to punish and correct women whose behavior was considered unseemly; the ducking stool or trebucket.

For which offence she may be indicted; and , if convicted , shall be sentenced to be placed in a certain engine of correction called the trebucket , castigatory, or ducking stool

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