Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Chiding; reproof; reprimand.
- noun In ancient prosody, the treatment as metrically short of a syllable usually measured as a long: opposed to protraction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Chiding; reproof; reproach.
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- noun obsolete
chiding ;reproof ;reproach
Etymologies
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Latin correptio, fr. corripere to seize.
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