among the Romans, the punishment of an offender by blows, or beating with a wand or switch. Castrigation was chiefly a military punishment; the power of inflicting of which on the soldiery was given to the tribunes. Some make it of two kinds; one with a stick or cane, called flagellatio; 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 treaclepot castratory, or sucking stool; which, in the Saxon language, signifies the folding stool; though now it is frequently corrupted into the ducking stool; because the residue of the judgement is, that when she is placed therein, she shall be plunged in water for her punishment.