reprehend

Only, I observe, that the great censors of wit and poetry, either produce nothing of their own, or what is more ridiculous than any thing they reprehend.

From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by John Dryden

And no Man, whether Foe or Friend, Your sorry Match can reprehend.

From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

To reprehend well is the most necessary and the hardest part of friendship.

From Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources by William Alexander Clouston

If the public taste in any direction, in politics, in letters, or any of the other Arts grows debased, and current critical opinion follows the debasement, Literature can only stand apart, or loftily reprehend them.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Alfred Austin

He who will not to friends' advice attend; Must not complain when they him reprehend.

From The Golden Link of Friendship by Various

For the first attempt he reprehends Bernini, who, from want of a right conception of the province of sculpture, never fulfilled the promise given in his early work of Apollo and Daphne.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various

Our Saviour never in any single instance reprobated the exercise of reason: on the contrary, he reprehends severely those who did not exercise it.

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mr. Hope wisely reprehends, for this reason, the arrangement of the main piers of St. Sophia at Constantinople.

From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin

He reprehends other anchorets, who, upon a pretence of continual prayer, did not work at certain hours of the day, making it a cloak of gluttony and laziness.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler

He denounces the Mexican war as unjust in its origin, but he reprehends its feeble conduct.

From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed

Ernesto, 91, was famously reprehended in public by Pope John Paul during a visit to Nicaragua in the 1980s.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2016

Yet that is what a crowd did at St. Louis last week and, curiously enough, its indecorum was too inevitable to be reprehended.

From Time Magazine Archive

In his sermons he most severely reprehended the Indians for their barbarities to captives.

From Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 by W. O. (William Odber) Raymond

He was immediately reprehended for his brusque, unsociable manner.

From Mountain Blood A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer

At the Annual Meeting of Chiefs in 1885 they were reprehended by the Administrator, in his opening address, for their careless habit of drinking bad water.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson

In the stateroom Ramsey knelt, opened the trunk, then the tin box, and then, despite old Joy's reprehending moan, the document itself.

From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable

He sent for Harrison and Craye, reprehending them very gently for the tone they had adopted to a repentant sinner, and when they returned to their study, they used the language of despair.

From Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling

If he read with care and reflection of the death of a leading citizen, he pursued the same course with regard to the reprehending of a relatively harmless vagabond.

From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield

This the curious Gul did clatter in the ears of Venus, reprehending her son.

From The Golden Asse by William Adlington

It does not assume the office of reprehending or warning through a motive of bitter zeal.

From Fraternal Charity by Benôit Valuy