chide

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  1. transitive verb To scold mildly so as to correct or improve; reprimand: chided the boy for his sloppiness.
  2. intransitive verb To express disapproval.

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  • But I forget myself; I meant to chide, and I think this is nothing towards it. —  The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54
  • Pray for those whom you chide, and for those to whom you shew their error However, the victory of the party of peace was not so thorough as it had seemed at first. —  Saint Augustin
  • Here let no waste in delay be of such account to thee (though thy company chide, and the passage call thy sails strongly to the deep, and thou mayest fill out their folds to thy desire) that thou do not approach the prophetess, and plead with prayers that she herself utter her oracles and deign to loose the accents from her lips. —  The Aeneid of Virgil
  • Still shall we chide, and fome upon this bit Is the Guise onely great in faction Stands he not by himselfe? —  Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
  • "Soon as our ships can trust the deep once more And South-winds chide, and Ocean smiles serene We crowd the beach, and launch, and town and shore Fade from our view. —  The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English chiden, from Old English cīdan, from cīd, strife, contention.

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  1. from Middle English chiden (weak verb, preterit chidde, past participle chid, chidde, the much later preterit chode and past participle chidden being due to the analogy of verbs like ride, rode, ridden, cf. hide, also a weak verb), from Anglo-Saxon cīdan (weak verb, preterit cīdde, past participle cīded, cīdd), chide, blame (with dative), intransitive quarrel; connections unknown.
  2. Cf. Middle English chide, from Anglo-Saxon gecīd, contention, from cīdan, chide, contend: see chide, v.
 

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