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
In cases where a man takes the liberty after this manner to reprehend others, it is commonly said, "Let him look at home."
From The Tatler, Volume 3 by Various
You are not to palliate or aggravate the offences of your brethren; but in the decision of every trespass against our rules, you are to judge with candor, admonish with friendship, and reprehend with justice.
From The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge by William Morgan
And yet I cannot reprehend the flight, Or blame th'attempt, presuming so to soar; The mounting venture for a high delight Did make the honour of the fall the more.
From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana by Martha Foote Crow
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
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
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
Hence Pope Julius I reprehends some who "keep throughout the year a linen cloth steeped in must, and at the time of sacrifice wash a part of it with water, and so make the offering."
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
This we learn from an epistle of that father, in which he very severely reprehends them.
From Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness by Robert Samber
Herein he goes beyond the bounds of knowledge, and indulges in the very dogmatism for which he reprehends the materialist.
From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote
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
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The Colonel reprehended them sharply, suspended them, and struck them out of the list of aids-de-camp of the General.
From An Historical View of the Philippine Islands, Vol I (of 2) Exhibiting their discovery, population, language, government, manners, customs, productions and commerce. by Martinez de Zuniga
They would be reprehended while they are looked on.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
Now, Jack has appeared in this story in very awkward circumstances, engaging himself right and left to every young lady that he fancied, with a fatal thoughtlessness, that cannot be too strongly reprehended.
From The Lady of the Ice A Novel by James De Mille
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
This the curious Gul did clatter in the ears of Venus, reprehending her son.
From The Golden Asse by William Adlington
Gladstone, gravely reprehending that Jesuit doctrine misleadingly termed Probabilism—which permits of a choice of the less probable course in morals and belief—supposed himself to be upholding a true Probabilism in Butler.
From Rationalism by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson
You may sneer at, you may censure, you may castigate them for what they really do, but beware of reprehending them for that which they have never done.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 by Various
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