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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of animadvert.

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    Wolfram Blog : Word Play with Mathematica 2008

  • He justly animadverts upon the silly fashion of the day, in lauding the vulgar imitation of the worsted stockings by Thom.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various

  • Even at this period of our hero's glory, he seems to have been suffering under what he considered as legal persecution; and animadverts, with much severity, on the conduct of the Judge of the

    The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison

  • Dr. Liman, like all German writers who have dealt with the topic, animadverts on the Hohenzollern obsession by the theory and attributes it chiefly to the romantic side of the Emperor's nature which was strongly influenced in youth by the "wonderful events" of

    William of Germany Stanley Shaw

  • Plato animadverts upon the loose morals of the Lacedæmonian women.

    The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul 1923

  • The learned writer animadverts upon the legislation which is intended to correct these inequalities, caused in the main by laziness, extravagance and sin, and says with truth that,

    Victorious Peace 1918

  • In this letter he justifies his proceedings in the case, defends in detail his action in reinstating Athanasius, and animadverts strongly on the non-appearance of the Eastern bishops at the council, the convening of which they themselves had suggested.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • On the l0th of June, nearly a month later, in his report to the war office, he virtually unsays what was then published and animadverts on Generals

    Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906

  • [Page 393] 1 Miss Stisted speaks of her as "Jane Digby, who capped her wild career by marrying a camel-driver," and animadverts on Lady Burton for befriending her.

    The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897

  • Dr. Porteus, now Bishop of London, in his excellent charge when presiding over the diocese of Chester, justly animadverts upon this subject; and observes of a reverend fop, that he 'can be but half a beau [252].'

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

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