The Collaborative International Dictionary
Animadvert \An`i*mad*vert"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Animadverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Animadverting.] [L. animadvertere; animus mind + advertere to turn to; ad to + vertere to turn.]
To take notice; to observe; -- commonly followed by that.
--Dr. H. More.-
To consider or remark by way of criticism or censure; to express censure; -- with on or upon.
I should not animadvert on him . . . if he had not used extreme severity in his judgment of the incomparable Shakespeare.
--Dryden. -
To take cognizance judicially; to inflict punishment. [Archaic]
--Grew.Syn: To remark; comment; criticise; censure.
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vb. (present participle of animadvert English)
Usage examples of "animadverting".
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.