单词 | objurgatory |
释义 | objurgatoryadj. Having the character of scolding or chiding; conveying or uttering a sharp rebuke, complaint, or criticism. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [adjective] > of nature of or rebuking severely objurgatory1576 castigatory1625 castigative1641 objurgative1854 objurgating1858 1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. To Rdr. sig. ¶vv Of letters there be sundrie sortes [margin]..Conuictorie, Obiurgatorie, Interrogatori. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 116 Touched to the quicke by some objurgatorie reprehension. 1650 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ (ed. 2) i. i. 2 Letters,..commonly..are either Narratory, Objurgatory, Consolatory, Monitory, or Congratulatory. 1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 426 Irascible, and objurgatory speech. 1795 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity (ed. 3) II. ii. iv. 110 The objurgatory question of the Pharisees. 1832 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn II. xvi. 211 Through the dreary watches of the night, solitary, silent, unamused, without one note of discontent; without one objurgatory winnow to his neglectful master. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. vi. 137 Remarkable for the facility with which she could relapse from her official objurgatory tone to one of fondness. 1890 Dict. National Biogr. XXI. 209/2 Gerard's conduct displeased Paschal, who in an objurgatory letter took him severely to task for the support he had given to the king against the primate. 1904 W. C. Hazlitt Book-collector xi. 206 Your fellow who writes some objurgatory caveat against the malappropriator. 1938 Amer. Hist. Rev. 44 48 Other epithets, however, had besides their objurgatory value a permanent meaning. 1984 Man 19 480/2 Driessen, however, then goes on to attack the book, in an objurgatory manner, for what he decries as a lack of historical and comparative perspectives. Derivatives obˈjurgatorily adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [adverb] snobberlya1300 reprovinglya1382 rebukingly1442 increpatively1483 rebukefully1531 scoldingly1548 chidingly1552 checkinglya1627 reprehensively1631 objurgatorily1659 remonstratingly1829 admonitorily1845 remonstrantly1872 objurgatively1897 chasteningly1901 1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 490 May I not objurgatorily speak it? 1882 W. G. Ward Ess. Philos. Theism (1884) II. 150 We are not wishing to speak objurgatorily but only to express our meaning, when we say [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1576 |
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