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

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Examples

  • The thing he reprehends is the woman's praying or prophesying uncovered, or the man's doing either covered, v. 4, 5.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

  • Love's limits are ample and great, and a spacious walk it hath, beset with thorns, and for that cause, which [4461] Scaliger reprehends in Cardan, not lightly to be passed over.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The very same fault it was, which the prophet reprehends in Asa king of Judah, that he relied more on physic than on God, and by all means would have him to amend it.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [1497] Curio in his 10th chapter well reprehends, such kind of letting blood doth more hurt than good: [1498] The humours rage much more than they did before, and is so far from avoiding melancholy, that it increaseth it, and weakeneth the sight.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Countries, and to be had cheap by anyone who watched the tides; but the author reprehends the growing luxury of using the livers of young fish before they were large enough to be brought to the table.

    Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

  • Timocreon, the Rhodian poet, reprehends him somewhat bitterly for being wrought upon by money to let some who were banished return, while abandoning himself, who was his guest and friend.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Nevertheless, I am not dissatisfied with the explanation, that Moses concisely reprehends the wicked perfidy of the hypocrite, who, by speaking familiarly, presented the appearance of fraternal concord, until the opportunity of perpetrating the horrid murder should be afforded.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • He reprehends their boasting of their preachers and describes the treatment the apostles every where met with.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 53: 1 Corinthians The Challoner Revision

  • So the apostle here calls the charity feasts observed by the primitive Christians; and reprehends the abuses of the

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 53: 1 Corinthians The Challoner Revision

  • He reprehends other anchorets, who, upon a pretence of continual prayer, did not work at certain hours of the day, making it a cloak of gluttony and laziness.

    The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

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