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- transitive verb obsolete to chasten.
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- verb obsolete to
chasten
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Examples
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Rapping teh end uv a long string arownd tayl looslee so kitteh can run madlee thru howse chast bai awl teh uvver kittehs, shur. but no ink!
Today’s access password is “bellyrub”. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Behaviour with which she treats me, her faithful Lover, shews, that it is the prudent, vertuous, chast Galesia.
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Behaviour with which she treats me, her faithful Lover, shews, that it is the prudent, vertuous, chast Galesia.
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And thei ben so chast, and leden so gode lif, as tho thei weren religious men: and thei fasten alle dayes.
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And for that thei liue aftre a chast sort: thei are neither skourged with Blastynges, ne Haile, ne Pestilence, ne suche other euilles.
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Their abstainence, chast and innocence; Set them miles apart.
light4u Diary Entry light4u 2004
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These Greekish Friers are very continent and chast, and surely I haue seldome seen (which I haue well noted) any of them fat.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And thei ben so chast, and leden so gode lif, as tho thei weren religious men: and thei fasten alle dayes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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A thirtie leagues I thinke, and more from thence where we were chast.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Stubbes, regretfully concluding that his ideal punishment was unacceptable -- that convicted prostitutes should be "made to drinke a full draught of Moyses cuppe, that is, tast [e] of present death" -- went on to suggest the next best thing: branding, on the cheek or forehead, "to the end [that] honest and chast Christians might be discerned from the adulterous Children of Sathan."
Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner Jessica A. Browner 1994
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