▪ I. † ˈchastice Obs. rare.
[app. in sense 1 f. L. type *castitia, f. castus chaste: cf. justice, malice, etc. (Godef. has a single example of OF. castece.) In sense 2, connected with chastise v.]
1. Chastity.
| 1567 Turberv. Ovid's Ep. 71 b, My chastice was a wandring Rovers pray. ― To his Love, &c., As she from Collatinus wife of chastice bore the bell. |
2. Chastisement.
| 1594 Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits xiii. (1596) 211 The irascible is the chastice geuer, and sword of reason. |
▪ II. chastice
obs. f. chastise, v.