Chastise \Chas*tise"\ (ch[a^]s*t[imac]z"; ch[a^]s"t[imac]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Chastised} (ch[a^]s*t[imac]zd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Chastising}.] [OE. chastisen; chastien + ending -isen + modern -ise, -ize, L. -izare, Gr. -i`zein. See {Chasten}.] 1. 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.
How fine my master is! I am afraid He will chastise me. --Shak.
I am glad to see the vanity or envy of the canting chemists thus discovered and chastised. --Boyle.
2. To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses.
The gay, social sense, by decency chastised. --Thomson.
3. To criticize (a person) strongly and directly in order to correct behavior.
I thought he had a higher sense of intellectual honesty and competence, and I'll tell you it really infuriated me as you can tell." So angry was Allen that another shareholder stepped up to the microphone to chastise him.
However, the editorial also proceeded to chastise the FDA, Congress, and the medical-research community for not immediately offering the drug to all patients suffering from Alzheimer's.
Which Frank are the authorities going to chastise?
Before Kodak's Longview petrochemical plant switched to a behavioral safety program, managers would chastise workers who burned themselves because they weren't wearing long sleeves or broke limbs falling from ladders.
Saudi output has been creeping upward since it initiated a strategy last summer to chastise OPEC members who were pumping beyond their quotas.