Jones chid the pedagogue for his interruption, and then the stranger proceeded. 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
When about 16 years of age I happened to meet with a book, written by one Tryon, recommending a vegetable diet. I determined to go into it. […] My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity. a. 1790, Benjamin Franklin, “Beginning Life as a Printer”, in Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, New York: Henry Holt and Company, published 1916:
(form-of, participle, past) past participle of chide