Possessing chastity or sexual purity; continent; virtuous; pure.Celibate; unmarried.Free from obscenity or impurity: as, chaste conversation.In a figurative sense: As applied to language and literary style, free from uncouth or equivocal words and phrases, and from affected or extravagant expressions; not affected or grandiloquent.In art, free from meretricious ornament or affectation; severely simple.To chasten; discipline; punish; chastise. See chasten and chastise, which have taken the place of this verb.To reduce to submission; tame.To bring or keep under control; restrain, as the passions.