1. (of a rebuke or misfortune) have a restraining or moderating effect on: "the director was somewhat chastened by his recent flops"
▪ (especially of God) discipline; punish.
Word Originearly 16th century: from an obsolete verb chaste, from Old French chastier, from Latin castigare ‘castigate’, from castus ‘morally pure, chaste’.