ppl. a. [f. CHASTEN v.1]
1. Corrected by disciplinary punishment.
1781. Fletcher, Lett., Wks. 1795, VII. 234. Chastened, spared like you.
2. Refined, purified (in character, feeling, style).
1794. Southey, Lyric P., To Hymen. Chasten’d Friendship comes.
1837. Hallam, Hist. Lit., I. I. iii. 181, note. A poem written in the chastened tone of fine taste.
1841. D’Israeli, Amen. Lit. (1867), 95. The more chastened writings of Roman and Grecian lore.
3. Restrained from excess; subdued; tempered.
1844. Stanley, Arnold (1858), II. ix. 114. The return, though in a more chastened form.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., I. § 11. 84. The chastened light told us that day was departing. Ibid. (1862), Mountaineer., vi. 45. A chastened hope was predominant in both our breasts.
Hence Chastenedly adv. rare.
1836. Tracts for Times, No. 81. 54. They will then speak of them, if they speak at all, more chastenedly and in the ear,—not in mixed society or in the market-place.
1873. Miss Broughton, Nancy, II. 30. I … prepare to be chastenedly and moderately glad to see them.
