among the Romans, the punishment of an offender by blows, or beating with a wand or switch. Castration was chiefly a military punishment; the power of inflicting which on the soldiery was given to the tribunes. Some make it of two kinds; one with a stick or cane called flagellation; the other with rods, called flagellatio; the latter was the most dishonourable.

CASTIGATORY for SCOLDS. A woman indicted for being a common scold, if convicted, shall be placed in a certain engine of correction, called the trobucket, caffigatory, or cucking-stool; which, in the Saxon language, signifies the scolding-stool; though now it is frequently corrupted into the ducking-stool; because the residue of the judgment is, that, when she is placed therein, she shall be plunged in water for her punishment.