REPRIMAND

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public. Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him. Macaulay.

2.
v.

To reprove severely; to reprehend; to chide for a fault; to consure formally. Germanicus was severely reprimanded by Tiberius for traveling into Egypt without his permission. Arbuthnot.

3.
v.

To reprove publicly and officially, in execution of a sentence; as, the court ordered him to be reprimanded.

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