Chaste

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chaste \Chaste\ (ch[=a]st), a. [F. chaste, from L. castus pure,
     chaste; cf. Gr. kaqaro`s pure, Skr. [,c]udh to purify.]
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     1. Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous;
        continent. "As chaste as Diana." --Shak.
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              Whose bed is undefiled and chaste pronounced.
                                                    --Milton.
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     2. Pure in thought and act; innocent; free from lewdness and
        obscenity, or indecency in act or speech; modest; as, a
        chaste mind; chaste eyes.
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     3. Pure in design and expression; correct; free from
        barbarisms or vulgarisms; refined; simple; as, a chaste
        style in composition or art.
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              That great model of chaste, lofty, and eloquence,
              the Book of Common Prayer.            --Macaulay.
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     4. Unmarried. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
  
     Syn: Undefiled; pure; virtuous; continent; immaculate;
          spotless.
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     {Chaste tree}. Same as {Agnus castus}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  chaste
       adj 1: morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual
              intercourse); "a holy woman innocent and chaste" [ant:
               {unchaste}]
       2: pure and simple in design or style; "a chaste border of
          conventionalized flowers"
       3: abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  173 Moby Thesaurus words for "chaste":
     Apostolic, Attic, Ciceronian, Encratic, Lenten, Pythagorean,
     Rechabite, Shaker, Spartan, Stoic, abase, absolute, abstemious,
     abstinent, aesthetic, afflict, artistic, ascetic, austere, bare,
     basic, becoming, beyond all praise, blotless, castigate, celibate,
     chasten, chastise, choice, classic, classical, clean, cleanly,
     clear, common, commonplace, continent, correct, decent, decorous,
     defectless, direct, discipline, easy, elegant, elementary,
     essential, ethical, everyday, excellent, faultless, finished,
     flawless, fruitarian, fundamental, garden, garden-variety, good,
     graceful, gracile, guiltless, homely, homespun, homogeneous,
     household, humble, humiliate, ideal, immaculate, impeccable,
     in good taste, indefectible, indefective, indivisible, infallible,
     innocent, irreducible, irreproachable, just right, limpid, lucid,
     maidenly, matter-of-fact, mere, modest, monolithic, moral, natural,
     neat, nephalistic, nondescript, of a piece, of choice, of quality,
     on the wagon, ordinary, peerless, pellucid, perfect, perspicuous,
     plain, pleasing, polished, primal, primary, proper, prosaic, prosy,
     pure, pure and simple, pure in heart, purehearted, quiet, refined,
     restrained, righteous, round, seemly, severe, sexually abstinent,
     sexually innocent, simon-pure, simple, single, sinless, snowy,
     spare, spotless, stainless, stark, straightforward, subdued,
     sworn off, taintless, tasteful, teetotal, terse, trim, try,
     unadorned, unadulterated, unaffected, unblemished, unblotted,
     uncluttered, uncontaminated, uncorrupt, undecorated, undefiled,
     understated, undifferenced, undifferentiated, unembellished,
     unfaultable, uniform, unlabored, unmixed, unobtrusive, unsoiled,
     unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished,
     vegetarian, virgin, virginal, virtuous, well-chosen, white,
     wholesome, workaday, workday