castigatory

castigatory (comparative more castigatory, superlative most castigatory)

1. Serving or tending to castigate.

   Synonyms: punitory, vindicatory, vindictive; see also Thesaurus:punitive

castigatory (plural castigatories)

1. (obsolete) An instrument formerly used to punish and correct women whose behavior was considered unseemly; the ducking stool or trebucket.
   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     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