Objurgate
verb ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 1 To rebuke or scold strongly. transitive
"He waited and waited, in the faith that Schinkel was dealing with them in his slow, categorical Teutonic way, and only objurgated the cabinetmaker for having in the first place paltered with his sacred trust.[…]"
- 2 censure severely wordnet
- 3 To remonstrate, complain, to rail against. intransitive
- 4 express strong disapproval of wordnet
Example
More examples"He waited and waited, in the faith that Schinkel was dealing with them in his slow, categorical Teutonic way, and only objurgated the cabinetmaker for having in the first place paltered with his sacred trust.[…]"
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin obiūrgātus, perfect passive participle of obiūrgō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ob- (“to, against”) + iūrgō (“to dispute, chide”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti.
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