animadvert
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
animadvert (animadverts, present participle animadverting; past and past participle animadverted)
- (intransitive) To criticise, to censure#Verb|censure.
- (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.[']
- (intransitive, law, archaic) To turn judicial attention (to); to criticise or punish.
- German: kritisieren, zensieren
- Portuguese: animadvertir, criticar, censurar
- Russian: критико́вать
- Spanish: criticar, censurar
- Spanish: enterarse
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