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Reprehend
Reprehend Rep`re*hend" (r?p`r?-h?nd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reprehended; p. pr. & vb. n. Reprehending.] [L. reprehendere, reprehensum, to hold back, seize, check, blame; pref. re- re- + prehendere to lay hold of. See Prehensile, and cf. Reprisal. ] To reprove or reprimand with a view of restraining, checking, or preventing; to make charge of fault against; to disapprove of; to chide; to blame; to censure. --Chaucer. Aristippus being reprehended of luxury by one that was not rich, for that he gave six crowns for a small fish. --Bacon. Pardon me for reprehending thee. --Shak. In which satire human vices, ignorance, and errors . . . are severely reprehended. --Dryden. I nor advise nor reprehend the choice. --J. Philips.

Meaning of Reprehends from wikipedia

- e. indigenous communities) this is denounced as "access control" and reprehended as censorship. Even though Western dominance seems to be prominent in...
- put forth in the Preface to The Humorist (1671): "My design was it, to reprehend some of the Vices and Follies of the Age, which I take to be the most...
- Snead's persistence started to irritate the governor, the magistrate was reprehended: He [Markham] called me rascal and dared me to issue my warrants against...
- the ****embly house during a demonstration and negotiated with them, reprehending them for disorderly behaviour while taking into consideration the grievances...
- that you do so by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit when you should be reprehending vice and praising virtue ... Prophecies like these should not be made...
- publicly rebuked by Holland, who presided on the occasion; and who severely reprehended the ****ure Primate of All England as "one who sought to sow discord among...
- malapropisms. In Act 3 Scene III, she declares to Captain Absolute, "Sure, if I reprehend any thing in this world it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice...
- Bladebreakers go into training and Rei proves much less capable. Takao reprehends him for being unfocused and he leaves frustrated that nobody respects...
- Marco and the others take Hao's men out and Yoh's group arrives. Lyserg reprehends Morphine for her disappearing and leaves with the X-Laws, disappointing...
- comprehensive, enterprise, prehensility, prehension, prey, prison, prize, reprehend, surprise prem-, -prim-, press- press Latin premere, pressus compress...