(v. t.) To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.
(v. t.) To emend; to correct.
Example Sentences:
(1) The restaurant was already castigated by Channel Four News for serving £4 bowls of cereal in a borough in which thousands of poor families can’t afford to feed their children.
(2) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
(3) The popular mood castigated all parties as to blame for the country's troubles.
(4) I'd hope the consensus would be that they were out of order rather than me being castigated for not keeping quiet, or being blamed our host for failing to take the guest's bigotry into account when sending out the invitations.
(5) Equally, there is a striking absence of castigation of the private sector for its massive failures.
(6) Scalise even got castigated for such idiocy by no less than Erick Erickson , whose words and deeds usually sound like he’s auditioning for a role in a WWII movie as the piggy Bavarian Gauleiter pinching at dirndls in between faking a WWI injury to keep from getting sent to the front.
(7) Evaluations and policy papers alike have castigated responses and agencies for their failure to put local responders at the centre of any crisis response, but little has changed in practice.
(8) In a new report released on Thursday, the NAO castigated the NHS and Department of Health’s failure to collect data on the outcomes experienced by patients helped by the Cancer Drugs Fund as a major weakness.
(9) The move is a surprise because the health secretary had previously castigated targets as unnecessary, likely to distort NHS staff's clinical priorities and part of a bureaucratic "top-down" system he intended to overhaul.
(10) His revelations in Peeling the Onion were castigated by politicians and fellow authors; this time around it might be his own children who are his harshest critics.
(11) Earlier this week, the Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh was castigated by the local media and opposition parties for supposedly considering a softening of India's negotiating position .
(12) The Scottish FA has rightly been castigated for the pricing structure both for Euro 2016 qualifying matches and the friendly with England.
(13) At the same time he castigated the Treasury for “undermining” the rest of government with its economic forecasts.
(14) The follow-up Glass Spider tour was castigated for its soulless over-production.
(15) He also castigated those who have set ideas about what a black cultural figure should be, specifically referring to the song I Am a God, from his most recent album Yeezus.
(16) Ironically, it was the radio the lyrics castigated that propelled the Selecter into the top 10.
(17) It seems rather hard to blame Gove for biblical ignorance: a couple of years ago he was castigated for sending every school a copy of the King James Bible.
(18) Museveni has also castigated opposition leaders for dreaming of an Arab spring in Uganda, pointing out that most of these states are no better now than they were before.
(19) While I am an ex-DCLG civil servant, I do write this either in support of my former employer nor to castigate it.
(20) He castigated both the government and Liberal Democrats for not seeking to represent all sides of Brexit opinion.
Revise
Definition:
(v. t.) To look at again for the detection of errors; to reexamine; to review; to look over with care for correction; as, to revise a writing; to revise a translation.
(v. t.) To compare (a proof) with a previous proof of the same matter, and mark again such errors as have not been corrected in the type.
(v. t.) To review, alter, and amend; as, to revise statutes; to revise an agreement; to revise a dictionary.
(n.) A review; a revision.
(n.) A second proof sheet; a proof sheet taken after the first or a subsequent correction.
Example Sentences:
(1) Under a revised deal most people are now being vetted on time, but charges for the service have had to rise from £12 and free vetting for volunteers, to £28 for a standard disclosure and £33 for an advanced disclosure.
(2) Potential revisions of the scale, as well as cautions for its use in clinical applications on its present form are discussed.
(3) In addition, a new dosage concepts has been introduced on the basis of the effective dose on the lines of the recommendations by the IRCP; as a result, the definitions of radiation protection areas and of dosage limit values had to be revised and reworded.
(4) Cameron, who faces intense political pressure from the UK Independence party in the runup to the 2014 European parliamentary elections, believes voters will need to be consulted if the EU agrees a major treaty revision in the next few years.
(5) Here we compare this revised technique to the classical sucrose density centrifugation procedure.
(6) The data were grouped to determine differences between the experimental and the newly revised formats of the GRE-A measure, in addition to any differences among programs.
(7) They also questioned why George Osborne and the Treasury failed to realise there was a potential issue earlier in the calculation process – pointing to recent upwards revisions of post-1995 gross national income by the UK’s own statistics watchdog.
(8) The Met Office has had to revise its forecast on previous occasions.
(9) The revised diagnosis was pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma for one case and pleomorphic leiomyosarcoma for the other cases.
(10) As a contribution to the proposed revision of the DSM-III-R category "Psychological Factors Affecting Physical Condition" for DSM-IV, this article reviews the history of how the relationship of psychiatric illness to neurological illness has been understood with respect to depression.
(11) Fixation is more difficult to achieve after revision for infection because of the inferior quality of the bone.
(12) The component was revised in forty-five patients, revision and advancement of the trochanteric component was done in twenty-five patients, and impinging bone or cement was removed from six patients; a combination of these procedures was done in nineteen patients.
(13) The decision came after Japan’s revised rules on the transfer of arms and defence technology, Suga said.
(14) With these stringent criteria the rejection rate was 71.0% for group A records, 58.5% for group B and 44.5% for group C. The proportions of records with peak quality (no missing leads or clipping, and grade 1 noise, lead drift or beat-to-beat drift) were 4.5% for group A, 5.5% for group B and 23.0% for group C. Suggested revisions in the grading of technical quality of ECGs are presented.
(15) The United States is in the process of adopting the revised recommendations of the ICRP.
(16) Functional gain was measured by the Revised Level of Rehabilitation Scale (LORS-II).
(17) Percutaneous balloon catheter dilation appears to be an effective method of treating stenosis in autogenous vein grafts and a useful alternative to surgical revision.
(18) The unreliable items were then deleted, and the revised scales were assessed in Study 2.
(19) These will be put forward for another round of consultation when the government publishes its revised national energy policy statements.
(20) Physicians are urged to reject involvement in rationing as inconsistent with their role as patient advocates and to support technology assessment, fee revisions, and more stringent self regulation as ways to discourage malpractice suits.