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to scold or criticize
- Though by the repeated bloody chastisements they have received at the hands of European cruisers, the audacity of these corsairs has of late been somewhat repressed; yet, even at the present day, we occasionally hear of English and American vessels, which, in those waters, have been remorselessly boarded and pillaged.Chapters 85-87 — The Fountain; The Tail; The Grand Armada (49% in)
There are no more uses of "chastise" in Moby Dick.
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