Verb
To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.
To emend; to correct.
Source: Webster's dictionaryPope Pius XII was meant to go and castigate Hitler for being a [air quotes] "Genocidal Fuckhead ... [air quotes again] with bunny rabbit ears". But he didn't, he wimped out, and for that history has renamed that Pope as "Pope Gutless Bastard I." Eddie Izzard
Hall: This is all nonsense [and] you're getting all hot under the collar about nothing. It's the Great British patois. All great truths begin as blasphemies, so why castigate Rooney, young tender sweet bud-on-the-vine [Wayne] Rooney. Your average ten year old can instruct you in oral and anal sex. Stuart Hall
The destruction was mutual. We went to Vietnam without any desire to capture territory or impose American will on other people. I don't feel that we ought to apologize or castigate ourselves or to assume the status of culpability. Jimmy Carter
My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it. Olivia Williams
She chastised him for his insensitive remarks Source: Internet
And most of us probably castigate ourselves on a daily basis for our inability to concentrate on the task at hand. Source: Internet