REPREHEND', verb transitive [Latin reprehendo; re and prehendo, to seize.] 1. To chide; to reprove. Pardon me for reprehending thee. 2. To blame; to censure. I nor advise, nor reprehend the choice. 3. To detect of fallacy. This color will be reprehended or encountered, by imputing to all excellencies in compositions a kind of poverty. [Not in use.] 4. To accuse; to charge with a fault; with of; as Aristippus, being reprehended of luxury.
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