To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove; to admonish.
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Admonition.
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Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning.
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of Berate
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Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism.
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of Chasten
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The act of chastising; pain inflicted for punishment and correction; discipline; punishment.
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The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement.
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The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture.
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Instruction or advice given by way of caution; an admonition; a warning; a caution.
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The act of objurgating; reproof.
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To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace.
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of Scold
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The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.
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of Upbraid
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To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.
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To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod.
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To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish, as with stripes.
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Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; a…
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To chide; to reprove.
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To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture.
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The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a l…
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To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.
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To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate.
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To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate.
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To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.
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To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with.
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One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
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To beat severely.
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The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture.
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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
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To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate.
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Reproof; censure; blame; disapproval.
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Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public.
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Refutation; confutation; contradiction.
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To find fault or rail with rude clamor; to brawl; to utter harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke; to chide sharply or coarsely; -- often with at; as, to sco…
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To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.
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