Obs. rare. [app. in sense 1 f. L. type *castitia, f. castus CHASTE: cf. justice, malice, etc. (Godef. has a single example of OF. castece.) In sense 2, connected with CHASTISE v.]
1. Chastity.
1567. Turberv., Ovid’s Ep., 71 b. My chastice was a wandring Rovers pray. Ibid., To his Love, &c. As she from Collatinus wife of chastice bore the bell.
2. Chastisement.
1594. Carew, Huarte’s Exam. Wits, xiii. (1596), 211. The irascible is the chastice geuer, and sword of reason.
Chastice, obs. f. CHASTISE, v.
