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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of reprehend.

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Examples

  • This conduct of the defendant is severely reprehended by the Court, and on any repetition of the offence the offender and offenders, all and sundry, shall be immediately put to hard labour on the improvement of the Broom Road.

    THE FEATHERS OF THE SUN 2010

  • Alexander, if [3520] Machiavel do not deceive us in his life: when a friend of his reprehended him for dancing beside his dignity, (belike at some cushion dance) he told him again, qui sapit interdiu, vix unquam noctii desipit, he that is wise in the day may dote a little in the night.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • He was served in silver plate, and had goodly household stuff: a little after, another religious man reprehended him in like sort, and from thenceforth he was served in earthen vessels, last of all a decree came forth, because Turks might not drink wine themselves, that neither Jew nor Christian then living in Constantinople, might drink any wine at all.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • And that which Hippocrates, in his epistle to Dionysius, reprehended of old, is verified in our times,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Heliodorus, a bishop, penned a love story of Theagines and Chariclea, and when some Catos of his time reprehended him for it, chose rather, saith

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • And although the crime carries its own heavy punishment along with it, in respect that it divests a public dinner of its most beautiful ornament and of its most fascinating charm, still the offence is none the less to be severely reprehended on every possible occasion, as outraging equally nature and art.

    Speeches: Literary and Social 2007

  • Is Paul to be reprehended for his reproof of the Judaizing of

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • I live sparingly, in the mean time, am clad homely, fare hardly; is this a reproach? am I the worse for it? am I contemptible for it? am I to be reprehended?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The system which she reprehended is not followed at New York, and the result is, not that the ladies “wear their hearts on their sleeves for daws to peck at,” but that they are unaffected, lively, and agreeable.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • [6201] Bilia had an old man to her spouse, and his breath stunk, so that nobody could abide it abroad; coming home one day he reprehended his wife, because she did not tell him of it: she vowed unto him, she had told him, but she thought every man's breath had been as strong as his.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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