reprehend

Besides, they belong to the service of the Muse; and so the other servant of the Muse, the Satirist, as the superintendent of the household, may reasonably reprehend or commend them.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

Let none rebuke me then, none reprehend, If love so great to madness driveth me!

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds

Now, then, look at my neck and see if it is fatter than your master’s, and if you can justly reprehend me.”

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

What a man saith well is not, however, to be rejected because he hath some errors; reprehend who will, in God’s name, that is, with sweetness and without reproach.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli

In submitting to your view the conduct of the troops under my command on this occasion, I find every thing to applaud, nothing to reprehend.

From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

There, this dæmon reprehends it, if it has acted on any false pretence; solemnly confirms what it says, if it asserts anything that is true; and conformably to its testimony passes sentence.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Aubrey Stewart

In which words Cælestinus reprehends this apparel, as a novelty which tended to superstition, and made way to the mocking and deceiving of the faithful.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie

Each is invited in a separate stanza in which the poet reprehends the failings of the several potentates.

From The Troubadours by H.J. Chaytor

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

Another talented zoologist, Hans Driesch, dedicates to the memory of Wigand two books in rapid succession and reprehends the contemporaries of that master of science for ignoring him.

From At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers by Edwin V. O'Harra

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 this faithful journal, I have ventured to smile at folly; I have honestly reprehended bad passions, and I have sincerely sympathized with their victims.

From A Morning's Walk from London to Kew by Richard Phillips

Which when I saw I reprehended them, And ask'd the mayor what meant this wilful silence?

From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury

I never disobeyed him but in those wicked tears; and they ran the faster the more he reprehended them.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor

Nevertheless the vicar was fearless in reprehending it, and his frank exhortations were, at least, listened to on account of the simple honesty of the man, and his well-known kindness of heart.

From The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural by Ernest Rhys

Judith noted the other players not at all; her hot reprehending eyes were on the girl in the blue dress.

From Judith of the Cumberlands by Alice MacGowan

Further, Mr. Prohack noticed that Sissie was eyeing her mother's necklace with a reprehending stare.

From Mr. Prohack by Arnold Bennett

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

From The Golden Asse by William Adlington

The excellent Jonas Hanway wrote a pamphlet reprehending this objectionable custom.

From De Libris: Prose and Verse by Austin Dobson