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单词 objurgatory
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objurgatoryadj.

Brit. /əbˈdʒəːɡət(ə)ri/, U.S. /ɑbˈdʒərɡəˌtɔri/
Forms: 1500s–1600s obiurgatorie, 1500s–1600s objurgatorie, 1600s– objurgatory.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin obiurgātōrius.
Etymology: < classical Latin obiurgātōrius reproachful, critical < obiurgāt- , past participial stem of obiurgāre objurgate v. + -ōrius -ory suffix2. Compare Middle French, French objurgatoire (1546).
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).
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