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Definition of Objurgated
1. objurgate [v] - See also: objurgate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Objurgated
Literary usage of Objurgated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reminiscences and Reflexions of a Mid and Late Victorian by Ernest Belfort Bax (1920)
"But good-natured and warm-hearted though he was, Morris could at times become a
prey to the most violent fits of passion, in which he objurgated freely. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"So decided, indeed, was his predisposition to find some extenuating quality in
even the most flagitious transgressor that had the devil been objurgated in ..."
3. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1905)
"23), and "objurgated colonials" (p. 129) trip the reader up, and he falls sprawling
over the "static " and "latent " Invincible Armada engaged in its deadly ..."
4. Notes of a Tour in Mexico and California by James Hale Bates (1887)
"The tramcars are drawn always by mules, going at a gallop, lashed and objurgated
all the way by swarthy conductors dressed in blue tunics, high boots, ..."
5. A History of the United States by Edward Channing (1921)
"Longfellow and Whittier objurgated the preceding generations in verse, and Holmes
gently chided his ancestors and their companions as the New England ..."
6. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages by Henry Charles Lea (1887)
"his death-bed was heartily objurgated by his ruined kinsmen, who saw no means of
repaying the borrowed capital which they had invested in the abortive ..."
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