Castigatory
Defined in 9 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Anderson (1889), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850), Bouvier (1839)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
An engine used to punish women who have been convicted of being common scolds. It is sometimes called the trebucket, tumbrel, ducking-stool or cucking-stool. This barbarous punishment has perhaps never been inflicted in the United States. 12 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 225.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
Castigatorium, I. I. In old English for the punishment of scolds or unquiet women the cucking stool, trebucket and tumbrel, v.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
An engine used to punish women who have been convicted of being common scolds. It is sometimes called the “trebucket,” “tumbrel,” “ducking- F stool,” or “cucking-stool.”
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
See Scold.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Common scold. tion laid on dwellers ■within a certain distance of a castle to maintain the garrison.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
[from Lat. castigare, to correct.] In old English law. An engine of correction for the punishn^^nt of scolds or wiquiet women; otherwise called the cucking stool, trebucket, and tumbrel, 4 Bl, Own, 168, 169. See Caching stool
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
punishments, is an engine used to punish women who have been convicted of being common scolds; it is sometimes called the trebucket, tumbrel, ducking stool, or cucking stool. This barbarous punishment has perhaps never been inflicted in the United States. Vide Common Scold.