| [**Tags**|wod]Word of the day for Monday: castigate \KAS-tuh-gayt\, transitive verb: To punish severely; also, to chastise verbally; to rebuke; to criticize severely. It was not good enough to castigate him for his sins. --Frank Deford, "Knight is too easy a target," [1]Sports Illustrated, May 25, 2000 Out in the world they marvelled that they were found acceptable to others, after years of being castigated as unsatisfactory, disappointing. --Anita Brookner, [2]Falling Slowly Though castigated by the Catholic Church, illegitimacy was scarcely an unusual feature of Austrian country life. --Ian Kershaw, [3]Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris For my lack of missionary zeal, I have been castigated by a few militant atheists, who are irritated by my disinclination to try persuading people to abandon their faith that God exists (while some religious people regard me as a militant atheist intent on promoting worship of unspecified "secular idols"). --Wendy Kaminer, [4]Sleeping With Extra-Terrestrials _________________________________________________________ Castigate comes from Latin castigare, "to purify, to correct, to punish," from castus, "pure." Synonyms: punish, chastise, rebuke, reprove, reprimand. |
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