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animadvert, v.|ˌænɪmədˈvɜːt|
[ad. L. animadvert-ĕre to turn the mind to, take notice of, orig. two words anim(um mind, advertĕre to turn to, f. ad to + vert-ĕre to turn. Through the sense of ‘take cognizance of’ it passed in judicial language to that of ‘chastise, or punish after examination.’]
†1. trans. To turn the mind or attention to, pay attention or attend to, observe. Obs.
1637Gillespie Eng.-Pop. Cer. iii. ii. 24 Which Theodosius..animadverting, commanded to pull them downe. 1673Newton in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) II. 353 The weak light..shall in comparison not be strong enough to be animadverted. 1679M. Prance Add. Narr. 25, I shall onely Animadvert Two things.
2. intr. To take note, observe, remark, consider, bethink oneself. Const. simply, and with that. arch.
1642H. More Song of Soul (1647) 159/2, I cannot conceive the body doth animadvert. 1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 163, I cannot but animadvert that this too lies open to his Dilemma. 1749Fielding Tom Jones xv. v. (1840) 219 Animadvert that you are in the house of a great lady. 1837Blackw. Mag. XLII. 235, I animadverted that all the oldest-looking shrivelled oak-apples..had contained pupæ.
3. intr. To turn the attention officially or judicially, take legal cognizance of anything deserving of chastisement or censure; hence, to proceed by way of punishment or censure. arch.
1671True Non-Conf. 12 If Israel was to animadvert with the sword against any city turning aside to Idolatrie. 1768Blackstone Comm. II. 395 The law will animadvert hereon as an injury. 1771J. Macpherson Introd. Hist. Gt. Brit. 290 They animadverted upon petty offenders with slighter punishments. 1817Jas. Mill Brit. India III. ii. 69 It is for the tribunal before which he offends to animadvert upon his conduct.
4. To comment critically (on), to utter criticism (usually of an adverse kind); to express censure or blame.
1665Glanvill Sceps. Sci. 13, I see no reason why her modesty should..be so severely animadverted on. 1699Bentley Phal. 29 The Examiner animadverts on it for ten Lines together. 1718Pope Let. Wks. 1737 VI. 36 Your grace very justly animadverts against the too great disposition of finding faults. 1791Sir J. Macintosh Vind. Gall. Wks. 1846 III. 92 To animadvert on this modest and courteous picture belongs not to the present subject. 1839Hallam Hist. Lit. II. ii. vii. §22. 302 The academies began to animadvert on defects beyond the province of grammar. 1873Goulburn Pers. Relig. i. 8 The state of things on which we have been animadverting. |