Word of the Day: chastise

The word chastise has appeared in 19 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on May 21 in “Review: Pulling Back the Curtain on ‘The Magic Flute’ at the Met” by Oussama Zahr:

The lights were still on in the auditorium — and audience members were still milling about in the aisles — when the orchestra struck up the overture to Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” at the Metropolitan Opera House on Friday evening.

The director Simon McBurney wasn’t trying to chastise anyone for being inattentive. He was gently easing the audience into a realm of clever feints, a place where everything is both highly imaginative and endearingly simple — and where seeing the trick only enhances the magic.

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