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Deserving reproach; censurable.

One who reproaches.

Expressing or containing reproach; upbraiding; opprobrious; abusive. The reproachful speeches . . . That he hath breathed in my dishonor here. Shak.

Being without reproach.

The act of reproaching one's self; censure by one's own conscience.

Reproached by one's own conscience or judgment.

Reproaching one's self. -- Self`-re*proach"ing*ly, adv.

Not liable to be reproached; irreproachable.

fusion; bustle and clamor. But the Jews which believed not, . . . set all the city on an uproar. Acts xvii. 5.

Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as, uproarious merriment. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ness, n.

The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach.

or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out. [Archaic] And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot. Spenser. His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him. Tennyson.

Manner of approaching or accosting; address. Chesterfield.

asure or degree than; as, things above comprehension; above mean actions; conduct above reproach. "Thy worth . . . is actions above my gifts." Marlowe. I saw in the way a light from heaven above the brightness of the sun. Acts xxxvi. 13.

To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage. The . . . tellers of news abused the general. Macaulay.

Evil or corrupt usage; abuse; wrong; reproach; deception; cheat. Chaucer.

Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. "An abusive lampoon." Johnson.

To approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede. [Obs.] T. Gale.

A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince. I did repel his letters, and denied His access to me. Shak.

The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptibility. Langhorne.