Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CAS-TI-GA'TION
CAS-TI-GA'TION, n.
- Punishment; correction; penance; discipline; emendation; restraint. – Boyle. Hale.
- Among the Romans, a military punishment inflicted on offenders, by beating with a wand or switch. – Encyc.
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