reprehend

REPREHEND', v.t. [l. reprehendo; re and prehendo, to seize.]

1. To chide; to reprove.

Pardon me for reprehending thee.

2. To blame; to censure.

I nor advise, nor reprehend the choice.

3. To detect of fallacy.

This color will be reprehended or encountered, by imputing to all excellencies in compositions a kind of poverty. [Not in use.]

4. To accuse; to charge with a fault; with of; as Aristippus, being reprehended of luxury.