castigatory
41tumbrel — n. 1. Dung cart, muck cart, rough cart. 2. Trebuchet, castigatory, ducking stool, cucking stool …
42penal — adj punitive, disciplinary, penalizing, retributive, castigatory; corrective, correctional …
43punitive — adj punishing, penalizing, penal, disciplinary, correctional, corrective, castigatory; retaliatory, revengeful, retributive, recriminatory; harsh, severe, bruising, hurtful …
44vindicatory — adj 1. exculpatory, exculpating, acquitting, compurgatory, exonerative, exonerating, vindicative, vindicating, absolutory, absolvent, absolving, excusatory, excusing; justificatory, justificative, justifying, extenuatory, extenuating, mitigative …
45castigate — v.t. punish; reprove; criticize severely. ♦ castigation, ♦ castigator, n. ♦ castigative, castigatory, a …
46cucking-stool — An engine of correction for common scolds, which in the Saxon language is said to signify the scolding stool, though now it is frequently corrupted into ducking stool, because the judgment was that, when the woman was placed therein, she should… …
47ducking-stool — See castigatory …
48cucking-stool — An engine of correction for common scolds, which in the Saxon language is said to signify the scolding stool, though now it is frequently corrupted into ducking stool, because the judgment was that, when the woman was placed therein, she should… …
49ducking-stool — See castigatory …
50tumbrel — /tambral/ A castigatory, trebucket, or dunking stool, anciently used as a punishment for common scolds …