Obs. Also 3–4 chastiement, † castiment, chastyment. [a. OF. chastiement (mod.F. châtiment), on L. type *castīgāment-um, f. castīgāre: see CASTIGATE and -MENT.]

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  1.  Chastisement, correction, punishment.

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a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 198. Hwose … uorhoweð chastiement.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 26004 (Cott.). Lauerd … ic am redi for to thol þi castiment [Fairf. chastiment].

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138[?].  Wyclif, Serm., Sel. Wks. I. 115. Þis is chastyment of þe felle fend and nevere chastyment of Crist.

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  2.  Reproof, rebuke.

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a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 72. Þurh swuch chastiement haueð sum ancre arered … a valsinde luue, oðer a much weorre.

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1393.  Gower, Conf., III. 169.

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a. 1500.  Ratis Raving, III. 419. Bettir is opine chastiment, Na luf that is hid in thin entent.

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