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Castigatory

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Cas`ti`ga`to`ry
a.1.Punitive in order to amendment; corrective.
n.1.An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; - called also a ducking stool, or trebucket.


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This is not to say that such a role was necessarily critical or castigatory, as it was traditionally meant to be, and as it would become during the civil war and interregnum.
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