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CASTIGATORY

Definitions: CASTIGATORY

CASTIGATORY

Adjective

1. Punitive in order to amendment; corrective.

Noun

1. An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Synonyms within Context: CASTIGATORY

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Punishment

Adjective: punishing; Verb: penal; punitory, punitive; inflictive, castigatory; punished;Verb:

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: CASTIGATORY

Language Translations for "CASTIGATORY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

bestrafend (penalizing, punishing). (various references)

   

Italian

  

punente. (various references)

   

Manx

  

smaghtagh (afflicting, authoritarian, correction, disciplinarian, masterful, restraining, restrictive, subduer, tameable, victor). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

astigatorycay

   

Vietnamese 

  

trừng trị khiển trách, trừng phạt (punishable, punitive, punitory, retributive, retributory). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: CASTIGATORY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-g-i-o-r-s-t-t-y"

-1 letter: castigator.

-2 letters: agitators.

-3 letters: agitator, atrocity, castrati, castrato, citators, citatory, cryostat, gyrostat, orgastic, ricottas, sagacity.

-4 letters: agarics, agitato, argotic, astatic, astrict, caritas, citator, cottars, gastric, ostiary, ostraca, ricotta, satyric, tragics, tricots, yttrias.

-5 letters: actors, agaric, agoras, agrias, aorist, aortas, aortic, argosy, argots, arista, aristo, artist, astray, attars, attics, carats, cargos, casita, castor, cigars, coatis, corgis.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-g-i-o-r-s-t-t-y"
 

+5 letters: syncategorematic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CASTIGATORY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 41 53 54 49 47 41 54 4F 52 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-    ...    -    ..    --.    .-    -    ---    .-.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01000001 01010011 01010100 01001001 01000111 01000001 01010100 01001111 01010010 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#83 &#84 &#73 &#71 &#65 &#84 &#79 &#82 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 0053 0054 0049 0047 0041 0054 004F 0052 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3735535443413554495259

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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