reprehend
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Sure, if I reprehend any thing in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
From The Rivals A Comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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
So much for the legend: and I must reprehend you for one tiny bit of Cockney about Memory’s rosary at the end of your article, which, but for that, I liked so much.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by William Aldis Wright
A letter of Rev. Andrew Eliot is still in existence referring to this presentation, and severely did he reprehend it.
From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle
A man makes his conscience dumb by the very sins that require a conscience trumpet-tongued to reprehend them.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren
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
He reprehends the conjuring practices of the Nestorian priests among the Mongols, who seem to have tried to rival the indigenous Káms or Medicine-men.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Henry Yule
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
She hated his Calvinism, and thought that the spirit of scornful denunciation everywhere prevails when Cowper reprehends the errors of mankind.
From Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield by Stapleton Martin
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
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
There is a teasing that is pleasurable, and is only another form of innocent raillery, but that which provokes, and irritates, and makes the eye flash with anger is to be reprehended.
From The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
For example, the word ‘governor,’ as applied to a father, is to be reprehended.
From The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley
It is not only such boldness that is to be reprehended, but extravagance of costume.
From The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
A similar case, at Newfoundland, was discussed in the House of Commons, and the ministers joined the opposition in severely reprehending the practice.
From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West
But yet, me thinks, the endeavour to advance the Civill Power, should not be by the Civill Power condemned; nor private men, by reprehending it, declare they think that Power too great.
From Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
I grant there is a manner of reprehending which turns a benefit into an injury, and then it both strengthens error and wounds the giver.
From Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources by William Alexander Clouston
Besides justly reprehending the French propensity towards braggadocio, it proves very strongly a point on which I am the only statesman in Europe who has strongly insisted.
From The Second Funeral of Napoleon by William Makepeace Thackeray
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
