objurgate

• He was about to objurgate, but affirmatived her motion to ring the bell for the servants, and addressed Peterborough: 'You read 'em abroad every morning Peterborough's conscience started off on its inevitable jog-trot at a touch of the whip. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
• It is customary to objurgate Thackeray as too moral. —  A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
• The latter could only obey -- and objurgate. —  Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters
• The Bearer is free of any commitment, obligation, debt, allegiance, loyalty to the above mentioned State and as such is not required to explain, to excuse, to explicate, to justify, to comment on, to condemn, to decry, to excoriate, to objurgate, to chastise and in any way to refer to the said State. —  Israelated - English Israel blogs
• He was about to objurgate, but affirmatived her motion to ring the bell for the servants, and addressed Peterborough: 'You read 'em abroad every morning?' —  The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 5

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