inveigh

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This is that "Scholasticism" and "Medićvalism" against which the modernists inveigh or under which they groan; and to this intellectual barrenness may be added the offences against taste, verisimilitude, and justice which their more critical minds may discern in many an act and pronouncement of their official superiors.

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  1. intransitive verb To give vent to angry disapproval; protest vehemently.

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  1. Latin invehī, to attack with words, inveigh against, passive of invehere, to carry in : in-, in; see in-2 + vehere, to carry; see wegh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also enveigh, invaigh, invey; from Middle English *enveyen (?) (not found), from Old French envair, enveir, attack, invade, press, undertake, prob. from Latin invadere, attack, invade (see invade), but also apparently in part (like the English invect, invection, invective, associated with inveigh) from Latin invehere, past participle invectus, carry, bear or bring in or to, also attack with words, scold, inveigh, from in, in, to, + vehere, carry: see vehicle.
 

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