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Animadvert   Listen
verb
Animadvert  v. i.  (past & past part. animadverted; pres. part. animadverting)  
1.
To take notice; to observe; commonly followed by that.
2.
To consider or remark by way of criticism or censure; to express censure; with on or upon. "I should not animadvert on him... if he had not used extreme severity in his judgment of the incomparable Shakespeare."
3.
To take cognizance judicially; to inflict punishment. (Archaic)
Synonyms: To remark; comment; criticise; censure.





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"Animadvert" Quotes from Famous Books



... in honour, for the stipend he received was little more than twelve pounds a year. I do not trouble myself or you with the calculation of Swedish ducats. Thus, my friend, you perceive the necessity of perquisites. This same narrow policy runs through everything. I shall have occasion further to animadvert on it. ...
— Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark • Mary Wollstonecraft
... the class of men by whom houses of this description are generally kept, and to shew the certainty they have of accumulating riches, as well as to guard the young and inexperienced against being decoyed, it may not be amiss to animadvert upon a few of the most prominent ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan


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