Word for today is: objurgate, v. objurgate, v. [‘ trans. To rebuke severely; to chide, scold.’] Pronunciation: Brit. /ˈɒbdʒəɡeɪt/, U.S. /ˈɑbdʒərˌɡeɪt/ Forms: 16 obiurgate, 16 18– objurgate. Etymology: < classical Latin obiurgāt-, past participial stem (compare -ate suffix3) of obiurgāre to reprimand, rebuke, chastise < ob- ob- prefix + iurgāre to quarrel, scold < iūr-, iūs law (see jure n.) + -igāre, verbal suffix also seen in lītigāre litigate v. Compare Middle French objurger (1520), Middle French, French objurguer (1546). Compare earlier objurgation n. N.E.D. (1902) also records a pronunciation with stress on the second syllable. This stress pattern is also noted by Wyld (1932) and Webster (1934), and is recorded as a less common variant in U.S. usage in the 15th ed. of D. Jones Eng. Pronouncing Dict. (1997). 1. trans. To rebuke severely; to chide, scold. 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor, Obiurgate, to chide, to reprooue sharpely. 1832 New-Eng. Mag. June 470 The want of a specific name is a great obstacle in the way of conciseness, for which we may objurgate the naturalists. 1854 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross li. 364 He then took to jagging and objurgating the horse, which put it out of his head. 1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab v. 90 The old man..objurgated his son. 1893 W. K. Post Harvard Stories 49, I could hear him objurgating Steve Hudson for hitting up the stroke. 1914 Amer. Hist. Rev. 19 603 The aim of the author seems rather to have been to emphasize the indubitable virtues of Queen Mary and her adherents, than to objurgate Foxe and his heroes. 1921 E. L. White Andivius Hedulio ii. xxi. 315 Clitellus thickly objurgated his comrade and all weakheads, worthless fellows. 1987 Sunset (Nexis) Sept. 184 He also objurgates users of ground beef. If you cant get buffalo..meat, use cubed lean beef chuck instead. 2. intr. To remonstrate; to complain; to rail against. 1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy xiv. 76 Command, but not objurgate. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. vii. 328 This poor Legislative,..cannot act; can only objurgate and perorate. a1843 R. Southey in Select. from Lett. (1856) IV. 544 So very slowly they proceeded, That Job might have objurgated as we did. 1874 Overland Monthly Apr. 369/2 If you step on one [sc. a toad] after nightfall, it will be useless to objurgate. You cannot provoke him to talk back. a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) i. 37 Outside upon the sidewalks..policemen with drawn clubs laboured and objurgated: anxious, preoccupied young men,..hurried to and fro, searching for their carriages. 1926 W. Lewis Art of being Ruled iv. v. 123 He provided a sanction and licence..for life—the very life that he never ceased himself to objurgate against. 1989 F. Kuppner Ridiculous! Absurd! Disgusting! 36 Enough of reasons, impatiently he—the father—objurgates. It is necessary. Derivatives ˈobjurgated n. and adj. 1867 De Bows Rev. Mar. 238 Many a stout commoner,..while he declaims with irascible eloquence against the abuse of class, is..taxing his last energy to swell in his own person the list of the objurgated. 1887 A. Birrell Obiter Dicta 2nd Ser. 54 A history of thought during this objurgated period. 1904 W. E. Chancellor & E. W. Hewes United States I. vi. 129 All of this testifies eloquently to the interesting nature of early Virginian life in the Chesapeake bay region, and to the high average quality of the frequently objurgated colonials. 1951 Times 6 Nov. 8/4 The mouth organ..is a tinny instrument rising at its best to the objurgated vox humana stop of the pipe organ. ˈobjurgating adj. and n. 1858 W. B. Pope tr. R. Stier Words of Lord Jesus VII. 386 Lampe rightly calls this ‘an objurgating reproof plainly at variance with his preceding fear’ [L. objurgans increpatio timori praecedenti plane contraria (1726)]. 1893 Times 16 Mar. 9/4 All the hypo~critical whining and objurgating in the world will not alter their determination. 1986 P. L. Fermor Between Woods & Water (1988) vii. 181 Somebodys objurgating voice calling down the curses of the Dragons mother.
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