Chastise
To be chastised in a dream marks having been imprudent in conducting one's affairs — a correction earned. The dream tends to touch the rebuke that follows a misstep, the discipline that answers carelessness, and to ask where we have managed things poorly, and what the felt punishment is trying to teach us to do better.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for chastise, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of being chastised, denotes that you have not been prudent in conducting your affairs.
To dream that you administer chastisement to another, signifies that you will have an ill-tempered partner either in business or marriage.
For parents to dream of chastising their children, indicates they will be loose in their manner of correcting them, but they will succeed in bringing them up honorably.