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adj. Serving or tending to castigate.

n. An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; the ducking stool or trebucket.

adj. Punitive in order to amendment; corrective.

n. An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket.

Serving to castigate; tending to correction; corrective; punitive.

n. pl. castigatories (-riz). Something that serves to castigate; specifically, an apparatus formerly used in punishing scolds. Also called ducking-stool and trebucket.

"On the contrary, besides his castigatory and carping toungue, he does not seem to offer any constructive criticism for the economic doldrums we are in."

ducking stool    trebucket   

corrective    punitive