What is "animadvert"

Usage examples of "animadvert".

Shebbeare, a public writer, who, in a series of printed letters to the people of England, had animadverted on the conduct of the ministry in the most acrimonious terms, stigmatized some great names with all the virulence of censure, and even assaulted the throne itself with oblique insinuation and ironical satire.

So sit I here animadverting whiles thou kicketh up a dust in fashion foolish and un-reeve-like.

The Dowager, with a magnificent disregard for the coachman and the footman, perched on the box-seat in front of her, knew no such reticence, and discoursed with great freedom on the birth of an heir to the barony, animadverting with embarrassing candour, and all the contempt of a matriarch who had brought half-a-dozen children into the world without fuss or complications, on sickly young women who fancied themselves to be ill days before their time, and ended by suffering cross births and hard labours.

She was no sooner gone than Jones, instead of animadverting on her behaviour, reflected that he was in the same bed which he was informed had held his dear Sophia.

I presumed to animadvert on his eulogy on Garrick, in his Lives of the Poets.

Beale--it was striking--was in a position to animadvert more and more upon her dreadfulness, the moral of all which appeared to be how abominably yet blessedly little she had to do with her husband.

I do not only animadvert on the sinfulness of the action- though that surely is to be greatly deprecated- but I fear his unrighteousness may injure him with Mr.

The confusion of Imogen did not allow her to animadvert upon his freedoms.

In the second place, whatever I said to you was in response to your unwarranted conduct, and should have driven you to reconsider your own behaviour and not animadvert on mine!

From time to time puffs of smoke still gushed into the room, but Lord Charlbury, pressed into a deep chair, and given a cushion for the support of his injured arm, felt that it would have been churlish to have animadverted upon this circumstance.

Our press has animadverted very strongly on the States government for the apparent untruthfulness of their arguments on this matter.

Joshua Pye, when thus animadverted upon, retorted that the Avonlea taste in colors was no business of his, whatever his private opinion might be.

Joshua Pye, when thus animadverted upon, retorted that the Avonlea taste in colors was no business of his, whatever his private opinion might be.

He walked up and down in front of this production, sociably took Strether's arm at the points at which he stopped, surveyed it repeatedly from the right and from the left, inclined a critical head to either quarter, and, while he puffed a still more critical cigarette, animadverted to his companion on this passage and that.

If the donor of the dental appendage was not the stalwart soldier to whom Vankirk had animadverted, who was he?