Chastise

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King James Dictionary [1]

Chastise,

1. To correct by punishing to punish to inflict pain by stripes, or in other manner, for the purpose of punishing an offender and recalling him to his duty.

I will chastise you seven times for your sins.  Leviticus 26 .

2. To reduce to order or obedience to restrain to awe to repress.

The gay social sense, By decency chastisd.

3. To correct to purify by expunging faults as, to chastise a poem.

Webster's Dictionary [2]

(1): (v. t.) To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses.

(2): (v. t.) To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish, as with stripes.

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