[a. L. castīgātor, agent-noun f. castīgāre; see CASTIGATE.]
One who castigates; see the verb.
1618. R. Houlder, Barneuels Apol., F ij b (T.). The Latine Castigator hath obserued, that the Dutch copy is corrupted and faulty here.
1751. Smollett, Per. Pic. (1784), III. lxxxv. 277. He not only acted the reformer, or rather the castigator, in the fashionable world, but also exercised his talents among the inferior class of people, who chanced to incur his displeasure.
1803. Gouv. Morris, in New-York Evening Post, 14 April, 2/3. My honourable colleague, who … threatened to be the castigator of those who from treachery or weakness might betray or divulge the secrets of the senate.
1873. Symonds, Grk. Poets, iv. 108. A sincere castigator of crime, extravagance, and folly.
1878. J. H. Gray, China, II. xviii. 60. The beggar received his punishment without a murmur, his castigator being … the head of his clan.
1885. H. Morley, Introd. Montaigne’s Ess. (Rtldg.), 20. The Pope’s castigator of books.
