Dictionary

objurgate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈɒbd͡ʒəɡeɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈɑbd͡ʒəɹɡeɪt/ (General-American)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin obiūrgātus, perfect passive participle of obiūrgō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ob- (“to, against”) + iūrgō (“to dispute, chide”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To rebuke or scold strongly.
   • When he saw his servant he rushed forward, and pressing the paper on him objurgated him, in tones which induced Ali to think that something awful had happened, to hurry up and get the whale-boat ready to go immediately—at once, at once—after Captain Lingard. 1896, Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands, London: T. Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC:
   • Mulcachy was disgusted. “Listen to reason, won’t you?” he objurgated, as, this time, the reason he referred to was the introduction of the ring clear through both nostrils, higher up, and through the central dividing wall of cartilage. 1917, Jack London, chapter XXXIII, in Michael, Brother of Jerry:
   • He waited and waited, in the faith that Schinkel was dealing with them in his slow, categorical Teutonic way, and only objurgated the cabinetmaker for having in the first place paltered with his sacred trust.[…] 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, volume 3, London: Macmillan and Co., page 190:
2. (intransitive) To remonstrate, complain, to rail against.

Forms

Relateds

objurgation · objurgative · objurgatively · objurgatory

Translations (5)

bg мъмря (To rebuke or scold strongly) · bg карам се (To rebuke or scold strongly) · fi tuomita (To rebuke or scold strongly) · ru брани́ть (To rebuke or scold strongly) · it obiurgare (To rebuke or scold strongly)