"castigatory" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more castigatory",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most castigatory",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "castigatory (comparative more castigatory, superlative most castigatory)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Serving or tending to castigate."
      ],
      "id": "en-castigatory-en-adj-L0mdbrxW",
      "links": [
        [
          "castigate",
          "castigate"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "castigatory"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "castigatories",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "castigatory (plural castigatories)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:",
          "text": "For which offence she may be indicted; and , if convicted , shall be sentenced to be placed in a certain engine of correction called the trebucket , castigatory, or ducking stool",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; the ducking stool or trebucket."
      ],
      "id": "en-castigatory-en-noun-Axol8gGs",
      "links": [
        [
          "instrument",
          "instrument"
        ],
        [
          "punish",
          "punish"
        ],
        [
          "correct",
          "correct"
        ],
        [
          "arrant",
          "arrant"
        ],
        [
          "scold",
          "scold"
        ],
        [
          "ducking stool",
          "ducking stool"
        ],
        [
          "trebucket",
          "trebucket"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; the ducking stool or trebucket."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "castigatory"
}

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  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more castigatory",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most castigatory",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "castigatory (comparative more castigatory, superlative most castigatory)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Serving or tending to castigate."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "castigate",
          "castigate"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "castigatory"
}

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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:",
          "text": "For which offence she may be indicted; and , if convicted , shall be sentenced to be placed in a certain engine of correction called the trebucket , castigatory, or ducking stool",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; the ducking stool or trebucket."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "instrument",
          "instrument"
        ],
        [
          "punish",
          "punish"
        ],
        [
          "correct",
          "correct"
        ],
        [
          "arrant",
          "arrant"
        ],
        [
          "scold",
          "scold"
        ],
        [
          "ducking stool",
          "ducking stool"
        ],
        [
          "trebucket",
          "trebucket"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; the ducking stool or trebucket."
      ],
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        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "castigatory"
}