chasten

  • 121assuage — I verb abate, allay, alleviate, appease, attemper, blunt, chasten, check, comfort, compose, curb, diminish, ease, lessen, levare, mitigare, mitigate, moderate, mollify, obtund, pacify, palliate, quell, quench, reduce, relieve, remedy, salve, sate …

    Law dictionary

  • 122castigate — I verb admonish, be severe, berate, call to account, castigare, caution, censure bitterly, chasten, chastise, chide, criticize severely, deal retributive justice, discipline, excoriate, execrate, expostulate, objurgate, rebuke, remonstrate,… …

    Law dictionary

  • 123correct — I (actual) adjective accepted, accurate, appropriate, approved, becoming, certain, comely, conscientious, convenable, convenial, customary, decent, decorous, definite, due, established, exact, exacting, factual, faultless, fitting, flawless,… …

    Law dictionary

  • 124dampen — I verb abate, allay, alleviate, assuage, blunt, chasten, chill, constrain, control, cool, cushion, deaden, decrease, deject, depress, deter, diminish, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, dull, lessen, mitigate, moderate, modulate, muffle, mute,… …

    Law dictionary

  • 125discipline — I (field of study) noun area of education, area of learning, branch of instruction, branch of knowledge, course, curriculum, doctrine, education, field of interest, field of learning, learning, lore, teaching II (obedience) noun acquiescence,… …

    Law dictionary

  • 126moderate — I (preside over) verb act as chairman, act as moderator, act as president, administer, be at the head of, be in authority, chair, command, control, direct, discipline, govern, have charge of, head, hold in check, hold sway over, hold the chair,… …

    Law dictionary

  • 1272 Samuel 7 — 1 And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies; 2 That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within… …

    The King James version of the Bible

  • 128Psalms 6 — 1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. 2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed. 3 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long? 4 Return, O LORD,… …

    The King James version of the Bible