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chastisable

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English

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Etymology

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From chastise +‎ -able.

Adjective

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chastisable (comparative more chastisable, superlative most chastisable)

  1. Capable or deserving of chastisement; punishable.
    • 1878, Calendar of State Papers:
      it would be a personal crime, chastisable in the person who had committed it