Word Meanings - CHAST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

to chasten. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to CHAST)

• CHASTEN
  chastise; castus pure + agere to lead, drive. See Chaste, Act, and 1. To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod. For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth. Heb. xii. 6.
• CHASTENER
  One who chastens.
• CHASTENESS
  Freedom from all that is meretricious, gaundy, or affected; as, chasteness of design. (more info) 1. Chastity; purity.
• CHASTENED
  Corrected; disciplined; refined; purified; toned down. Sir. W. Scott. Of such a finished chastened purity. Tennyson.
• ENCHASTEN
  To chasten.