Do we say castigate or castrate

castigate 9 occurrences

<Ag, act, ig> (carry on, do, drive): (1) agent, agitate, agile, act, actor, actuate, exact, enact, reaction, counteract, transact, mitigate, navigate, prodigal, assay, essay; (2) agenda, pedagogue, synagogue, actuary, redact, castigate, litigation, exigency, ambiguous, variegated, cogent, cogitate.

Assignment for further discrimination: <castigate, scourge>.

<Whip, chastise, castigate, flagellate, scourge, lash, trounce, thrash, flog, maul, drub, switch, spank, bastinado.

A few passages will suffice to show that Germany is not quite devoid of straight-forward men, who dare to castigate hate.

Nevertheless, if the Jews of this country had the power, they would enslave the Mussulman, and well castigate them.

I am the Judge who wishes to castigate this system by making use of its own defects, to make war on it by flattering it.

reprimand, chastise, castigate, lash, blow up, trounce, trim, laver la tete

The letter and the sonnet addressed to me are so marvellously fine, that if a man should find in them anything to castigate, it would be impossible to castigate him as thoroughly as they are castigated.

The letter and the sonnet addressed to me are so marvellously fine, that if a man should find in them anything to castigate, it would be impossible to castigate him as thoroughly as they are castigated.

castrate 8 occurrences

The Hebrews placarded castration an unpardonable sin, making it a sin to castrate even animals.

The response to the revolution in the cell-republic of the castrate by the other endocrines, the thyroid, the pituitary, and the adrenals, determines which it is to be.

During the revels of great festivals, apprentices to the trade, wrought up by certain traditional songs and music, would be hypnotised into a frenzy, run amuck, throw off every garment, and, snatching up swords, deliberately placed in convenient spots, castrate themselves at one blow.

V. subduct, subtract; deduct, deduce; bate, retrench; remove, withdraw, take from, take away; detract. garble, mutilate, amputate, detruncate^; cut off, cut away, cut out; abscind^, excise; pare, thin, prune, decimate; abrade, scrape, file; geld, castrate; eliminate. diminish &c 36; curtail &c (shorten) 201; deprive of &c (take) 789; weaken.

unman, unnerve, enervate; emasculate, castrate, geld, alter, neuter, sterilize, fix. shatter, exhaust, weaken &c 160.

disinfect, fumigate, ventilate, deodorize; whitewash; castrate, emasculate.

Some castrate their puppies thinking them less likely to leave the flock, but others do not, thinking that the operation makes them less fierce.

Each native who had received baptism presented the priest with a cock or a hen, but not with a capon, because they have not yet learned to castrate the chickens and make capons of them.

Do we say   castigate   or  castrate