Animadvert

Quick meaning: Animadvert is a verb meaning (intransitive) To criticise, to censure.

Meaning

(intransitive) To criticise, to censure.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To consider.
2. (intransitive, law, archaic) To turn judicial attention (to); to criticise or punish.

Example Sentences

Sir Walter has been duly animadverted on for this dangerous error by the erudite Mr. Todd.

But there was the greatest degree of harshness and injustice in the manner in which the conduct of the magistrates upon that occasion was animadverted upon by that House.

[H]e had probably committed Violence with his Hands, had not the Parſon interpoſed, ſaying, 'For Heaven's Sake, Sir, animadvert that you are in the Houſe of a great Lady.[']

It was a perfectly civil business note, but it began with the phrase: 'Your letter (undated) has been received.' This drew a second epistle from the Professor: Sir, he said and his writing looked like a barbed-wire fence - I observe that you animadvert upon the trifle that my letter was undated.

Word Forms

• animadverts
• animadverting
• animadverted

Synonyms for animadvert

Depending on context, synonyms include opine.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include opine, critic, admonish, remonstrate, improve, criminate.

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