animadvert
Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /ˌænɪmədˈvɜːt/
  • (GA) IPA: /ˌænɪmədˈvɝt/
Verb

animadvert (animadverts, present participle animadverting; past and past participle animadverted)

  1. (intransitive) To criticise, to censure#Verb|censure.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To consider.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter V, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume V, London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292 ↗, book XV, page 226 ↗:
      [H]e had probably committed Violence with his Hands, had not the Parſon interpoſed, ſaying, 'For Heaven's Sake, Sir, animadvert that you are in the Houſe of a great Lady.[']
  3. (intransitive, law, archaic) To turn judicial attention (to); to criticise or punish.
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