castigate

verb

1. (formal, transitive)To punish or reprimand someone severely.

   “Perhaps disarmed by his own scandalous behaviour with Bathsheba, he was in no position to castigate his son for a similar fault.”

2. (formal, transitive)To execrate or condemn something in a harsh manner, especially by public criticism.

   “God doth indurate, when hee doth not by and by caſtigate a ſynner.”

   “The curse of avarice and cupidity / Is all my sermon, for it frees the pelf. / Out come the pence, and specially for myself, / For my exclusive purpose is to win / And not at all to castigate their sin.”

   “But despite all this, for Barkan, the universalist notion of an 'Ottoman feudalism' was anathema: he castigated this idea as the concentrated expression of the anti-Ottomanism of the Kemalist Enlightenment.”

   “Lewis should have castigated the reasoning employed rather than the emotion, which offers no clue as to which side of the argument a person will adopt.”

   “From the outset, this issue becomes an often double-edged sword wherein Japan is both valorized and castigated.”

3. (rare, transitive)To revise or make corrections to a publication.

adj

1. (obsolete)Subdued, chastened, moderated
2. (obsolete)Revised and emended